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Remove an unneeded sed in vlc instructions

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY vlc-download-http "https://download.videolan.org/vlc/&vlc-version;/vlc-&vlc-version;.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY vlc-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY vlc-md5sum "f797dc97305639f6270df619fe1c5962">
10 <!ENTITY vlc-size "25 MB">
11 <!ENTITY vlc-buildsize "724 MB (add 13 MB for tests)">
12 <!ENTITY vlc-time "1.9 SBU (using parallelism=4; add 0.2 SBU for tests)">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="vlc" xreflabel="VLC-&vlc-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="vlc.html"?>
17
18 <sect1info>
19 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
20 <date>$Date$</date>
21 </sect1info>
22
23 <title>VLC-&vlc-version;</title>
24
25 <indexterm zone="vlc">
26 <primary sortas="a-VLC">VLC</primary>
27 </indexterm>
28
29 <sect2 role="package">
30 <title>Introduction to VLC</title>
31
32 <para>
33 <application>VLC</application> is a media player, streamer, and encoder.
34 It can play from many inputs, such as files, network streams, capture
35 devices, desktops, or DVD, SVCD, VCD, and audio CD. It can use most audio
36 and video codecs (MPEG 1/2/4, H264, VC-1, DivX, WMV, Vorbis, AC3, AAC,
37 etc.), and it can also convert to different formats and/or send streams
38 through the network.
39 </para>
40
41 &lfs91_checked;
42
43 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
44 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
45 <listitem>
46 <para>
47 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&vlc-download-http;"/>
48 </para>
49 </listitem>
50 <listitem>
51 <para>
52 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&vlc-download-ftp;"/>
53 </para>
54 </listitem>
55 <listitem>
56 <para>
57 Download MD5 sum: &vlc-md5sum;
58 </para>
59 </listitem>
60 <listitem>
61 <para>
62 Download size: &vlc-size;
63 </para>
64 </listitem>
65 <listitem>
66 <para>
67 Estimated disk space required: &vlc-buildsize;
68 </para>
69 </listitem>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>
72 Estimated build time: &vlc-time;
73 </para>
74 </listitem>
75 </itemizedlist>
76
77 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">VLC Dependencies</bridgehead>
78
79 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
80 <para role="recommended">
81 <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
82 <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/>,
83 <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>,
84 <xref linkend="liba52"/>,
85 <xref linkend="libgcrypt"/>
86 <xref linkend="libmad"/>,
87 <xref linkend="lua"/>, and
88 <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
89 </para>
90
91 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional features and packages</bridgehead>
92 <para role="optional">
93 <xref linkend="dbus"/>,
94 <xref linkend="libidn"/>, and
95 <xref linkend="libssh2"/>
96 </para>
97
98 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional input plugins</bridgehead>
99 <para role="optional">
100 <xref linkend="libarchive"/>,
101 <xref linkend="libcddb"/>,
102 <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
103 <xref linkend="libdvdcss"/>,
104 <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
105 <xref linkend="libdvdnav"/>,
106 <xref linkend="opencv"/> (currently broken),
107 <xref linkend="samba"/>,
108 <xref linkend="v4l-utils"/>,
109 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html">libbluray</ulink>,
110 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdc1394/">libdc1394</ulink>,
111 <ulink url="https://github.com/sahlberg/libnfs">libnfs</ulink>,
112 <ulink url="https://github.com/libproxy/libproxy">libproxy</ulink>,
113 <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/libraw1394/">libraw1394</ulink>,
114 <ulink url="http://www.live555.com/">Live555</ulink>, and
115 <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/">VCDImager</ulink>
116 (requires <xref linkend="libcdio"/>)
117 </para>
118
119 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional mux/demux plugins</bridgehead>
120 <para role="optional">
121 <xref linkend="libogg"/>,
122 <ulink url="https://github.com/kode54/Game_Music_Emu">Game Music Emu</ulink>,
123 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvbpsi.html">libdvbpsi</ulink>,
124 <ulink url="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/libshout/">libshout</ulink>,
125 <ulink url="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libmatroska/">libmatroska</ulink>
126 (requires <ulink url="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libebml/">libebml</ulink>),
127 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/modplug-xmms/">libmodplug</ulink>,
128 <ulink url="http://www.musepack.net/">Musepack</ulink>, and
129 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/sidplay2/">sidplay-libs</ulink>
130 </para>
131
132 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional codec plugins</bridgehead>
133 <para role="optional">
134 <xref linkend="faad2"/>,
135 <xref linkend="flac"/>,
136 <xref linkend="libass"/>,
137 <xref linkend="libmpeg2"/>,
138 <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
139 <xref linkend="libtheora"/>,
140 <xref linkend="libva"/>,
141 <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
142 <xref linkend="opus"/>,
143 <xref linkend="speex"/>,
144 <xref linkend="x264"/>,
145 <ulink url="https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/">aom</ulink>,
146 <ulink url="https://github.com/nkoriyama/aribb24">aribb24</ulink>,
147 <ulink url="https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d">dav1d</ulink>,
148 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dirac/">Dirac</ulink>,
149 <ulink url="https://github.com/divideconcept/FluidLite">FluidLite</ulink>,
150 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidsynth/">FluidSynth</ulink>,
151 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html">libdca</ulink>,
152 <ulink url="https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/OggKate">libkate</ulink>,
153 <ulink url="http://www.khronos.org/openmax/">OpenMAX</ulink>,
154 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/schrodinger/">Schroedinger</ulink>,
155 <ulink url="https://github.com/toots/shine">Shine</ulink>,
156 <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/p/soxr/wiki/Home/">SoX</ulink>,
157 <ulink url="http://wiki.xiph.org/Tremor">Tremor</ulink>,
158 <ulink url="http://www.twolame.org/">Twolame</ulink>, and
159 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/zapping/">Zapping VBI</ulink>
160 </para>
161
162 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional video plugins</bridgehead>
163 <para role="optional">
164 <xref linkend="aalib"/>,
165 <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
166 <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
167 <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
168 <xref linkend="librsvg"/>,
169 <xref linkend="libvdpau"/>,
170 <xref linkend="sdl"/>
171 (with <ulink url="http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/release-1.2.html">SDL_image</ulink>),
172 <ulink url="http://caca.zoy.org/">libcaca</ulink>, and
173 <ulink url="https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK">libmfx</ulink>
174 </para>
175
176 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional audio plugins</bridgehead>
177 <para role="optional">
178 <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
179 <xref linkend="libsamplerate"/>,
180 <ulink url="https://github.com/videolabs/libspatialaudio">spatialaudio</ulink>, and
181 <ulink url="http://jackaudio.org/">JACK</ulink>
182 </para>
183
184 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional interface plugins</bridgehead>
185 <para role="optional">
186 <xref linkend="qt5"/> (required for the graphical user interface),
187 <ulink url="https://repo.or.cz/w/libtar.git/">libtar</ulink>,
188 <ulink url="https://libvnc.github.io/">libvncclient</ulink>,
189 <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/">LIRC</ulink>, and
190 <ulink url="http://www.freerdp.com/">freerdp</ulink>
191 </para>
192
193 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional visualisations and video filter plugins</bridgehead>
194 <para role="optional">
195 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/goom/">Goom</ulink>,
196 <ulink url="https://www.vsxu.com">libvsxu</ulink>, and
197 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/projectm/">projectM</ulink>
198 </para>
199
200 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional service discovery plugins</bridgehead>
201 <para role="optional">
202 <xref linkend="avahi"/>,
203 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmtp/">libmtp</ulink> and
204 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pupnp/">libupnp</ulink>
205 </para>
206
207 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Miscellaneous options</bridgehead>
208 <para role="optional">
209 <xref linkend="gnutls"/>,
210 <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
211 <xref linkend="libxml2"/>,
212 <xref linkend="taglib"/>,
213 <xref role="runtime" linkend="xdg-utils"/> (runtime),
214 <ulink url="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/extensions/mp2-plugins/atmolight">AtmoLight</ulink>,
215 <ulink url="https://github.com/videolabs/libmicrodns">libmicrodns</ulink>,
216 <ulink url="https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/">protobuf</ulink>, and
217 <ulink url="https://www.srtalliance.org/">srt</ulink>
218 </para>
219
220 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
221 User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/vlc"/>
222 </para>
223 </sect2>
224
225 <sect2 role="installation">
226 <title>Installation of VLC</title>
227
228 <para>
229 Install <application>VLC</application> by running the following commands:
230 </para>
231
232 <screen><userinput>sed -i '/vlc_demux.h/a #define LUA_COMPAT_APIINTCASTS' modules/lua/vlc.h &amp;&amp;
233sed -i '/#include &lt;QWidget&gt;/a\#include &lt;QPainterPath&gt;/' \
234 modules/gui/qt/util/timetooltip.hpp &amp;&amp;
235sed -i '/#include &lt;QPainter&gt;/a\#include &lt;QPainterPath&gt;/' \
236 modules/gui/qt/components/playlist/views.cpp \
237 modules/gui/qt/dialogs/plugins.cpp &amp;&amp;
238
239BUILDCC=gcc ./configure --prefix=/usr \
240 --disable-opencv \
241 --disable-vpx &amp;&amp;
242
243make</userinput></screen>
244
245 <para>
246 To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
247 </para>
248
249 <para>
250 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
251 </para>
252
253<screen role="root"><userinput>make docdir=/usr/share/doc/vlc-&vlc-version; install</userinput></screen>
254
255 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
256 href="../../xincludes/update-icons-and-desktop.xml"/>
257
258 </sect2>
259
260 <sect2 role="commands">
261 <title>Command Explanations</title>
262
263 <para>
264 <command>sed ... modules/lua/...</command>: This command allows
265 building with the current version of <xref linkend="lua"/>.
266 </para>
267
268 <para>
269 <command>sed ... a\#include &lt;QPainterPath&gt;/ ...</command>: These two
270 sed commands fix building with Qt-5.15.0.
271
272 </para>
273
274 <para>
275 <parameter>--disable-opencv</parameter>: This switch is required to disable
276 <application>opencv</application> which is not compatible with this
277 version of <application>vlc</application>.
278 </para>
279
280 <para>
281 <parameter>--disable-vpx</parameter>: This switch is required to disable
282 <application>libvpx</application>. The latest version is not compatible
283 with this version of <application>vlc</application>.
284 </para>
285
286 <para>
287 <option>--disable-lua</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
288 <application>Lua</application> installed.
289 </para>
290
291 <para>
292 <option>--disable-mad</option>: Use this switch if you don't
293 have <application>libmad</application> installed.
294 </para>
295
296 <para>
297 <option>--disable-avcodec --disable-swscale</option>: Use these switches
298 if you don't have <application>FFmpeg</application> installed.
299 </para>
300
301 <para>
302 <option>--disable-a52</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
303 <application>liba52</application> installed.
304 </para>
305
306 <para>
307 <option>--disable-xcb</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
308 <application>X Window System</application> installed.
309 </para>
310
311 <para>
312 <option>--disable-alsa</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
313 <application>ALSA</application> installed.
314 </para>
315
316 <para>
317 <option>--disable-libgcrypt</option>: Use this switch if you don't
318 have <application>libgcrypt</application> installed.
319 </para>
320
321 <para>
322 <option>--disable-sftp</option>: The default is to build the sftp
323 module if <xref linkend="libssh2"/> is installed. Use this switch
324 if you do not want to build this module.
325 </para>
326
327 <note>
328 <para>
329 There are many options to <application>VLC</application>'s
330 <command>configure</command> command. Check the
331 <command>configure --help</command> output for a complete list.
332 </para>
333 </note>
334
335 </sect2>
336
337 <sect2 role="content">
338 <title>Contents</title>
339
340 <segmentedlist>
341 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
342 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
343 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
344
345 <seglistitem>
346 <seg>
347 cvlc, nvlc, qvlc, rvlc, svlc, vlc and vlc-wrapper
348 </seg>
349 <seg>
350 libvlccore.so, libvlc.so, and many plugins in
351 /usr/lib/vlc/plugins
352 </seg>
353 <seg>
354 /usr/{include,lib,share}/vlc,
355 /usr/share/kde4, and
356 /usr/share/doc/vlc-&vlc-version;
357 </seg>
358 </seglistitem>
359 </segmentedlist>
360
361 <variablelist>
362 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
363 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
364 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
365
366 <varlistentry id="cvlc">
367 <term><command>cvlc</command></term>
368 <listitem>
369 <para>
370 is a script to run VLC with the dummy interface.
371 </para>
372 <indexterm zone="vlc cvlc">
373 <primary sortas="b-cvlc">cvlc</primary>
374 </indexterm>
375 </listitem>
376 </varlistentry>
377
378 <varlistentry id="nvlc">
379 <term><command>nvlc</command></term>
380 <listitem>
381 <para>
382 is a script to run VLC with the ncurses interface.
383 </para>
384 <indexterm zone="vlc nvlc">
385 <primary sortas="b-nvlc">nvlc</primary>
386 </indexterm>
387 </listitem>
388 </varlistentry>
389
390 <varlistentry id="qvlc">
391 <term><command>qvlc</command></term>
392 <listitem>
393 <para>
394 is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with the
395 <application>Qt</application> interface.
396 </para>
397 <indexterm zone="vlc qvlc">
398 <primary sortas="b-qvlc">qvlc</primary>
399 </indexterm>
400 </listitem>
401 </varlistentry>
402
403 <varlistentry id="rvlc">
404 <term><command>rvlc</command></term>
405 <listitem>
406 <para>
407 is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with a command
408 line interface.
409 </para>
410 <indexterm zone="vlc rvlc">
411 <primary sortas="b-rvlc">rvlc</primary>
412 </indexterm>
413 </listitem>
414 </varlistentry>
415
416 <varlistentry id="svlc">
417 <term><command>svlc</command></term>
418 <listitem>
419 <para>
420 is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with the skins
421 interface.
422 </para>
423 <indexterm zone="vlc svlc">
424 <primary sortas="b-svlc">svlc</primary>
425 </indexterm>
426 </listitem>
427 </varlistentry>
428
429 <varlistentry id="vlc-prog">
430 <term><command>vlc</command></term>
431 <listitem>
432 <para>
433 is the <application>VLC</application> media player.
434 </para>
435 <indexterm zone="vlc vlc-prog">
436 <primary sortas="b-vlc">vlc</primary>
437 </indexterm>
438 </listitem>
439 </varlistentry>
440
441 <varlistentry id="vlc-wrapper">
442 <term><command>vlc-wrapper</command></term>
443 <listitem>
444 <para>
445 is a wrapper to drop privileges with <application>VLC</application>.
446 </para>
447 <indexterm zone="vlc vlc-wrapper">
448 <primary sortas="b-vlc-wrapper">vlc-wrapper</primary>
449 </indexterm>
450 </listitem>
451 </varlistentry>
452
453 </variablelist>
454
455 </sect2>
456
457</sect1>
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