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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY vlc-download-http
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| 8 | "http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/&vlc-version;/vlc-&vlc-version;.tar.xz">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY vlc-download-ftp
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| 10 | "ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/&vlc-version;/vlc-&vlc-version;.tar.xz">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY vlc-md5sum "3941b561f590cc95ca5e795213cba2f2">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY vlc-size "19 MB">
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| 13 | <!ENTITY vlc-buildsize "494 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests)">
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| 14 | <!ENTITY vlc-time "4.7 SBU (additional less than 0.1 SBU for the tests)">
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| 15 | ]>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <sect1 id="vlc" xreflabel="VLC-&vlc-version;">
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| 18 | <?dbhtml filename="vlc.html"?>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <sect1info>
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| 21 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 22 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 23 | </sect1info>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <title>VLC-&vlc-version;</title>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <indexterm zone="vlc">
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| 28 | <primary sortas="a-VLC">VLC</primary>
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| 29 | </indexterm>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 32 | <title>Introduction to VLC</title>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <para>
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| 35 | <application>VLC</application> is a media player, streamer, and encoder.
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| 36 | It can play from many inputs like files, network streams, capture device,
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| 37 | desktops, or DVD, SVCD, VCD, and audio CD. It can play most audio and
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| 38 | video codecs (MPEG 1/2/4, H264, VC-1, DivX, WMV, Vorbis, AC3, AAC, etc.),
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| 39 | but can also convert to different formats and/or send streams through the
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| 40 | network.
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| 41 | </para>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | &lfs76_checked;
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 46 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 47 | <listitem>
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| 48 | <para>
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| 49 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&vlc-download-http;"/>
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| 50 | </para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>
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| 54 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&vlc-download-ftp;"/>
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| 55 | </para>
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| 56 | </listitem>
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| 57 | <listitem>
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| 58 | <para>
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| 59 | Download MD5 sum: &vlc-md5sum;
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| 60 | </para>
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| 61 | </listitem>
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| 62 | <listitem>
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| 63 | <para>
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| 64 | Download size: &vlc-size;
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| 65 | </para>
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| 66 | </listitem>
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| 67 | <listitem>
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| 68 | <para>
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| 69 | Estimated disk space required: &vlc-buildsize;
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| 70 | </para>
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| 71 | </listitem>
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| 72 | <listitem>
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| 73 | <para>
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| 74 | Estimated build time: &vlc-time;
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| 75 | </para>
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| 76 | </listitem>
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| 77 | </itemizedlist>
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| 78 |
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| 79 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">VLC Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 80 |
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| 81 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 82 | <para role="recommended">
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| 83 | <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
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| 84 | <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>,
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| 85 | <xref linkend="liba52"/>,
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| 86 | <xref linkend="libgcrypt"/>
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| 87 | <xref linkend="libmad"/>,
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| 88 | <xref linkend="lua"/>, and
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| 89 | <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>
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| 90 | </para>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional features and packages</bridgehead>
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| 93 | <para role="optional">
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| 94 | <xref linkend="dbus"/>
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| 95 | </para>
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| 96 |
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| 97 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional input plugins</bridgehead>
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| 98 | <para role="optional">
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| 99 | <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
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| 100 | <xref linkend="libdvdcss"/>,
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| 101 | <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
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| 102 | <xref linkend="libdvdnav"/>,
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| 103 | <xref linkend="samba"/>,
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| 104 | <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html">libbluray</ulink>,
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| 105 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdc1394/">libdc1394</ulink>,
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| 106 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcddb/">libcddb</ulink>,
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| 107 | <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libproxy/">libproxy</ulink>,
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| 108 | <ulink url="http://www.live555.com/">Live555</ulink>,
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| 109 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/">OpenCV</ulink>,
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| 110 | <ulink url="http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-utils/">Video4Linux</ulink>, and
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| 111 | <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/">VCDImager</ulink>
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| 112 | (requires <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/">libcdio</ulink>)
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| 113 | </para>
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| 114 |
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| 115 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional mux/demux plugins</bridgehead>
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| 116 | <para role="optional">
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| 117 | <xref linkend="libogg"/>,
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| 118 | <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/game-music-emu/">Game Music Emu</ulink>,
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| 119 | <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvbpsi.html">libdvbpsi</ulink>,
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| 120 | <ulink url="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/libshout/">libshout</ulink>,
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| 121 | <ulink url="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libmatroska/">libmatroska</ulink>
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| 122 | (requires <ulink url="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libebml/">libebml</ulink>),
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| 123 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/modplug-xmms/">libmodplug</ulink>,
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| 124 | <ulink url="http://www.musepack.net/">Musepack</ulink>, and
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| 125 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/sidplay2/">sidplay-libs</ulink>,
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| 126 | </para>
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| 127 |
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| 128 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional codec plugins</bridgehead>
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| 129 | <para role="optional">
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| 130 | <xref linkend="faad2"/>,
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| 131 | <xref linkend="flac"/>,
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| 132 | <xref linkend="libass"/>,
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| 133 | <xref linkend="libmpeg2"/>,
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| 134 | <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
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| 135 | <xref linkend="libtheora"/>,
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| 136 | <xref linkend="libva"/>,
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| 137 | <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
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| 138 | <xref linkend="opus"/>,
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| 139 | <xref linkend="speex"/>,
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| 140 | <xref linkend="x264"/>,
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| 141 | <ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research/">Dirac</ulink>,
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| 142 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidsynth/">FluidSynth</ulink>,
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| 143 | <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html">libdca</ulink>,
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| 144 | <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libkate/">libkate</ulink>,
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| 145 | <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libtiger/">libtiger</ulink>,
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| 146 | <ulink url="http://www.khronos.org/openmax/">OpenMAX</ulink>,
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| 147 | <ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/download/schroedinger/">Schroedinger</ulink>,
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| 148 | <ulink url="http://wiki.xiph.org/Tremor">Tremor</ulink>,
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| 149 | <ulink url="http://www.twolame.org/">Twolame</ulink>, and
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| 150 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/zapping/">Zapping VBI</ulink>
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| 151 | </para>
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| 152 |
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| 153 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional video plugins</bridgehead>
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| 154 | <para role="optional">
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| 155 | <xref linkend="aalib"/>,
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| 156 | <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
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| 157 | <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
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| 158 | <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
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| 159 | <xref linkend="librsvg"/>,
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| 160 | <xref linkend="libvdpau"/>,
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| 161 | <xref linkend="sdl"/>
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| 162 | (with <ulink url="http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/">SDL_image</ulink>), and
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| 163 | <ulink url="http://caca.zoy.org/">libcaca</ulink>
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| 164 | </para>
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| 165 |
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| 166 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional audio plugins</bridgehead>
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| 167 | <para role="optional">
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| 168 | <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
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| 169 | <xref linkend="libsamplerate"/>, and
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| 170 | <ulink url="http://jackaudio.org/">JACK</ulink>
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| 171 | </para>
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| 172 |
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| 173 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional interface plugins</bridgehead>
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| 174 | <para role="optional">
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| 175 | <xref linkend="qt4"/> (required for the graphical user interface),
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| 176 | <ulink url="http://pkgbuild.com/~giovanni/libtar/">libtar</ulink>, and
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| 177 | <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/">LIRC</ulink>
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| 178 | </para>
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| 179 |
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| 180 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional visualisations and video filter plugins</bridgehead>
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| 181 | <para role="optional">
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| 182 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/goom/">Goom</ulink> and
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| 183 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/projectm/">projectM</ulink>
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| 184 | </para>
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| 185 |
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| 186 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional service discovery plugins</bridgehead>
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| 187 | <para role="optional">
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| 188 | <xref linkend="avahi"/>,
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| 189 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmtp/">libmtp</ulink> and
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| 190 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pupnp/">libupnp</ulink>
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| 191 | </para>
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| 192 |
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| 193 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Miscellaneous options</bridgehead>
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| 194 | <para role="optional">
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| 195 | <xref linkend="gnutls"/>,
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| 196 | <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
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| 197 | <xref linkend="libxml2"/>,
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| 198 | <xref linkend="taglib"/>, and
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| 199 | <xref linkend="xdg-utils"/> (runtime)
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| 200 | </para>
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| 201 |
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| 202 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
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| 203 | User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/vlc"/>
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| 204 | </para>
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| 205 | </sect2>
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| 206 |
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| 207 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 208 | <title>Installation of VLC</title>
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| 209 |
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| 210 | <para>
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| 211 | Install <application>VLC</application> by running the following commands:
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| 212 | </para>
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| 213 |
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| 214 | <screen><userinput>sed "s:< 56:< 57:g" -i configure &&
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| 215 | ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
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| 216 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 217 |
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| 218 | <para>
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| 219 | To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
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| 220 | </para>
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| 221 |
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| 222 | <para>
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| 223 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 224 | </para>
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| 225 |
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| 226 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make docdir=/usr/share/doc/vlc-&vlc-version; install</userinput></screen>
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| 227 |
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| 228 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 229 | href="../../xincludes/update-icons-and-desktop.xml"/>
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| 230 |
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| 231 | </sect2>
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| 232 |
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| 233 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 234 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 235 |
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| 236 | <para>
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| 237 | <command>sed ... configure</command>: This sed fixes compilation with
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| 238 | <application>FFMpeg</application> 2.4.
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| 239 | </para>
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| 240 |
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| 241 | <para>
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| 242 | <option>--disable-lua</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
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| 243 | <application>Lua</application> installed.
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| 244 | </para>
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| 245 |
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| 246 | <para>
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| 247 | <option>--disable-mad</option>: Use this switch if you don't
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| 248 | have <application>libmad</application> installed.
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| 249 | </para>
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| 250 |
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| 251 | <para>
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| 252 | <option>--disable-avcodec --disable-swscale</option>: Use these switches
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| 253 | if you don't have <application>FFmpeg</application> installed.
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| 254 | </para>
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| 255 |
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| 256 | <para>
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| 257 | <option>--disable-a52</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
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| 258 | <application>liba52</application> installed.
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| 259 | </para>
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| 260 |
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| 261 | <para>
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| 262 | <option>--disable-xcb</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
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| 263 | <application>X Window System</application> installed.
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| 264 | </para>
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| 265 |
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| 266 | <para>
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| 267 | <option>--disable-alsa</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
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| 268 | <application>ALSA</application> installed.
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| 269 | </para>
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| 270 |
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| 271 | <para>
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| 272 | <option>--disable-libgcrypt</option>: Use this switch if you don't
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| 273 | have <application>libgcrypt</application> installed.
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| 274 | </para>
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| 275 |
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| 276 | <note>
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| 277 | <para>
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| 278 | There are many options to <application>VLC</application>'s
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| 279 | <command>configure</command> command. Check the
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| 280 | <command>configure --help</command> output for a complete list.
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| 281 | </para>
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| 282 | </note>
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| 283 |
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| 284 | </sect2>
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| 285 |
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| 286 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 287 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 288 |
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| 289 | <segmentedlist>
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| 290 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 291 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 292 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 293 |
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| 294 | <seglistitem>
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| 295 | <seg>
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| 296 | cvlc, nvlc, qvlc, rvlc, svlc, vlc and vlc-wrapper
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| 297 | </seg>
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| 298 | <seg>
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| 299 | libvlccore.so, libvlc.so and several plugins in
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| 300 | /usr/lib/vlc/plugins
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| 301 | </seg>
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| 302 | <seg>
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| 303 | /usr/include/vlc,
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| 304 | /usr/lib/vlc,
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| 305 | /usr/share/vlc and
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| 306 | /usr/share/doc/vlc-&vlc-version;
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| 307 | </seg>
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| 308 | </seglistitem>
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| 309 | </segmentedlist>
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| 310 |
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| 311 | <variablelist>
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| 312 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 313 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 314 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 315 |
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| 316 | <varlistentry id="cvlc">
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| 317 | <term><command>cvlc</command></term>
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| 318 | <listitem>
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| 319 | <para>
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| 320 | is a script to run VLC with the dummy interface.
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| 321 | </para>
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| 322 | <indexterm zone="vlc cvlc">
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| 323 | <primary sortas="b-cvlc">cvlc</primary>
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| 324 | </indexterm>
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| 325 | </listitem>
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| 326 | </varlistentry>
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| 327 |
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| 328 | <varlistentry id="nvlc">
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| 329 | <term><command>nvlc</command></term>
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| 330 | <listitem>
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| 331 | <para>
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| 332 | is a script to run VLC with the ncurses interface.
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| 333 | </para>
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| 334 | <indexterm zone="vlc nvlc">
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| 335 | <primary sortas="b-nvlc">nvlc</primary>
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| 336 | </indexterm>
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| 337 | </listitem>
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| 338 | </varlistentry>
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| 339 |
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| 340 | <varlistentry id="qvlc">
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| 341 | <term><command>qvlc</command></term>
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| 342 | <listitem>
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| 343 | <para>
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| 344 | is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with the
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| 345 | <application>Qt</application> interface.
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| 346 | </para>
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| 347 | <indexterm zone="vlc qvlc">
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| 348 | <primary sortas="b-qvlc">qvlc</primary>
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| 349 | </indexterm>
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| 350 | </listitem>
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| 351 | </varlistentry>
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| 352 |
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| 353 | <varlistentry id="rvlc">
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| 354 | <term><command>rvlc</command></term>
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| 355 | <listitem>
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| 356 | <para>
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| 357 | is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with a command
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| 358 | line interface.
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| 359 | </para>
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| 360 | <indexterm zone="vlc rvlc">
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| 361 | <primary sortas="b-rvlc">rvlc</primary>
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| 362 | </indexterm>
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| 363 | </listitem>
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| 364 | </varlistentry>
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| 365 |
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| 366 | <varlistentry id="svlc">
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| 367 | <term><command>svlc</command></term>
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| 368 | <listitem>
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| 369 | <para>
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| 370 | is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with the skins
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| 371 | interface.
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| 372 | </para>
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| 373 | <indexterm zone="vlc svlc">
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| 374 | <primary sortas="b-svlc">svlc</primary>
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| 375 | </indexterm>
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| 376 | </listitem>
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| 377 | </varlistentry>
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| 378 |
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| 379 | <varlistentry id="vlc-prog">
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| 380 | <term><command>vlc</command></term>
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| 381 | <listitem>
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| 382 | <para>
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| 383 | is the <application>VLC</application> media player.
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| 384 | </para>
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| 385 | <indexterm zone="vlc vlc-prog">
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| 386 | <primary sortas="b-vlc">vlc</primary>
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| 387 | </indexterm>
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| 388 | </listitem>
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| 389 | </varlistentry>
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| 390 |
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| 391 | <varlistentry id="vlc-wrapper">
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| 392 | <term><command>vlc-wrapper</command></term>
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| 393 | <listitem>
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| 394 | <para>
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| 395 | is a wrapper to drop privileges with <application>VLC</application>.
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| 396 | </para>
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| 397 | <indexterm zone="vlc vlc-wrapper">
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| 398 | <primary sortas="b-vlc-wrapper">vlc-wrapper</primary>
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| 399 | </indexterm>
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| 400 | </listitem>
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| 401 | </varlistentry>
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| 402 |
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| 403 | </variablelist>
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| 404 |
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| 405 | </sect2>
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| 406 |
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| 407 | </sect1>
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