You are currently looking at a piece of documentation for xine. xine is a free video player. It lives on http://xine.sf.net. This document should help xine hackers to find their way through xine's architecture and source code. It's a pretty free-form document containing a loose collection of articles describing various aspects of xine's internals. This document has no intention to and therefore will never be complete or current in any way. This document is being developed in the xine-lib cvs repository within the directory doc/hackersguide/. If you are unsure what to do with the stuff in that directory, please read the README file located there. New versions of this document can also be obtained from the xine web site on sourceforge: http://xine.sf.net/. All comments, error reports, additional information and criticism of all sorts should be directed to the xine developer mailing list xine-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.