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Update to lxml-4.2.5 (Python module).
Update to mesa-18.2.0.
Update to vlc-3.0.4.

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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 "f5e49a0fb9594ab8debf934a710e92f1">
10 <!ENTITY vlc-size "24 MB">
11 <!ENTITY vlc-buildsize "711 MB (add 14 MB for tests)">
12 <!ENTITY vlc-time "2.0 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 &lfs83_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="ffmpeg"/>,
83 <xref linkend="liba52"/>,
84 <xref linkend="libgcrypt"/>
85 <xref linkend="libmad"/>,
86 <xref linkend="lua"/>, and
87 <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
88 </para>
89
90 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional features and packages</bridgehead>
91 <para role="optional">
92 <xref linkend="dbus"/>
93 </para>
94
95 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional input plugins</bridgehead>
96 <para role="optional">
97
98 <xref linkend="libcddb"/>,
99 <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
100 <xref linkend="libdvdcss"/>,
101 <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
102 <xref linkend="libdvdnav"/>,
103 <xref linkend="opencv"/> (currently broken),
104 <xref linkend="samba"/>,
105 <xref linkend="v4l-utils"/>,
106 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html">libbluray</ulink>,
107 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdc1394/">libdc1394</ulink>,
108 <ulink url="https://github.com/libproxy/libproxy">libproxy</ulink>,
109 <ulink url="http://www.live555.com/">Live555</ulink>, and
110 <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/">VCDImager</ulink>
111 (requires <xref linkend="libcdio"/>)
112 </para>
113
114 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional mux/demux plugins</bridgehead>
115 <para role="optional">
116 <xref linkend="libogg"/>,
117 <ulink url="https://github.com/kode54/Game_Music_Emu">Game Music Emu</ulink>,
118 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvbpsi.html">libdvbpsi</ulink>,
119 <ulink url="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/libshout/">libshout</ulink>,
120 <ulink url="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libmatroska/">libmatroska</ulink>
121 (requires <ulink url="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libebml/">libebml</ulink>),
122 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/modplug-xmms/">libmodplug</ulink>,
123 <ulink url="http://www.musepack.net/">Musepack</ulink>, and
124 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/sidplay2/">sidplay-libs</ulink>
125 </para>
126
127 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional codec plugins</bridgehead>
128 <para role="optional">
129 <xref linkend="faad2"/>,
130 <xref linkend="flac"/>,
131 <xref linkend="libass"/>,
132 <xref linkend="libmpeg2"/>,
133 <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
134 <xref linkend="libtheora"/>,
135 <xref linkend="libva"/>,
136 <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
137 <xref linkend="opus"/>,
138 <xref linkend="speex"/>,
139 <xref linkend="x264"/>,
140 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dirac/">Dirac</ulink>,
141 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidsynth/">FluidSynth</ulink>,
142 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html">libdca</ulink>,
143 <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libkate/">libkate</ulink>,
144 <ulink url="http://www.khronos.org/openmax/">OpenMAX</ulink>,
145 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/schrodinger/">Schroedinger</ulink>,
146 <ulink url="http://wiki.xiph.org/Tremor">Tremor</ulink>,
147 <ulink url="http://www.twolame.org/">Twolame</ulink>, and
148 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/zapping/">Zapping VBI</ulink>
149 </para>
150
151 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional video plugins</bridgehead>
152 <para role="optional">
153 <xref linkend="aalib"/>,
154 <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
155 <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
156 <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
157 <xref linkend="librsvg"/>,
158 <xref linkend="libvdpau"/>,
159 <xref linkend="sdl"/>
160 (with <ulink url="http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/">SDL_image</ulink>), and
161 <ulink url="http://caca.zoy.org/">libcaca</ulink>
162 </para>
163
164 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional audio plugins</bridgehead>
165 <para role="optional">
166 <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
167 <xref linkend="libsamplerate"/>, and
168 <ulink url="http://jackaudio.org/">JACK</ulink>
169 </para>
170
171 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional interface plugins</bridgehead>
172 <para role="optional">
173 <xref linkend="qt5"/> (required for the graphical user interface),
174 <ulink url="http://pkgbuild.com/~giovanni/libtar/">libtar</ulink>, and
175 <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/">LIRC</ulink>
176 </para>
177
178 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional visualisations and video filter plugins</bridgehead>
179 <para role="optional">
180 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/goom/">Goom</ulink> and
181 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/projectm/">projectM</ulink>
182 </para>
183
184 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional service discovery plugins</bridgehead>
185 <para role="optional">
186 <xref linkend="avahi"/>,
187 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmtp/">libmtp</ulink> and
188 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pupnp/">libupnp</ulink>
189 </para>
190
191 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Miscellaneous options</bridgehead>
192 <para role="optional">
193 <xref linkend="gnutls"/>,
194 <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
195 <xref linkend="libxml2"/>,
196 <xref linkend="taglib"/>,
197 <xref role="runtime" linkend="xdg-utils"/> (runtime), and
198 <ulink url="http://www.ambilight4pc.com/atmolight.html">AtmoLight</ulink>
199 </para>
200
201 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
202 User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/vlc"/>
203 </para>
204 </sect2>
205
206 <sect2 role="installation">
207 <title>Installation of VLC</title>
208
209 <para>
210 Install <application>VLC</application> by running the following commands:
211 </para>
212
213 <screen><userinput>sed -i '/vlc_demux.h/a #define LUA_COMPAT_APIINTCASTS' modules/lua/vlc.h &amp;&amp;
214sed -i '/DEPRECATED/s:^://:' modules/text_renderer/freetype/text_layout.c &amp;&amp;
215sed -i '/118/s/$/\&amp;\&amp; X264_BUILD &lt; 153/' modules/codec/x264.c &amp;&amp;
216
217BUILDCC=gcc ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-opencv &amp;&amp;
218
219make</userinput></screen>
220
221<!-- No longer needed
222sed -i '/#include &lt;QString&gt;/i#include &lt;QButtonGroup&gt;' \
223 modules/gui/qt/components/simple_preferences.cpp &amp;&amp;
224-->
225 <para>
226 To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
227 </para>
228
229 <para>
230 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
231 </para>
232<!--
233 <note>
234 <para>
235 If the XORG_PREFIX is not /usr, make sure the LIBRARY_PATH
236 environment variable is set properly for the root user when
237 doing the install, For example:
238 <command>sudo make LIBRARY_PATH=$XORG_PREFIX/lib ... install</command>.
239 </para>
240 </note>
241-->
242<screen role="root"><userinput>make docdir=/usr/share/doc/vlc-&vlc-version; install</userinput></screen>
243
244 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
245 href="../../xincludes/update-icons-and-desktop.xml"/>
246
247 </sect2>
248
249 <sect2 role="commands">
250 <title>Command Explanations</title>
251
252 <para>
253 <command>sed ... modules/lua/...</command>: This command allows
254 building with the current version of <xref linkend="lua"/>.
255 </para>
256
257 <para>
258 <command>sed ... text_layout.c</command>: This command allows
259 building with the current version of <xref linkend="freetype2"/>.
260 </para>
261
262 <para>
263 <command>sed ... modules/codec/x264.c</command> This command allows
264 building with the current version of <xref linkend="x264"/>.
265 </para>
266<!--
267 <para>
268 <command>sed -i '/#include &lt;QString&gt;/ ...</command> This
269 command allows building with the current version of
270 <xref linkend="qt5"/>.
271 </para>
272-->
273 <para>
274 <option>--disable-opencv</option>: This switch is required to disable
275 <application>opencv</application> which is not compatible with this
276 version of <application>vlc</application>.
277 </para>
278
279 <para>
280 <option>--disable-lua</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
281 <application>Lua</application> installed.
282 </para>
283
284 <para>
285 <option>--disable-mad</option>: Use this switch if you don't
286 have <application>libmad</application> installed.
287 </para>
288
289 <para>
290 <option>--disable-avcodec --disable-swscale</option>: Use these switches
291 if you don't have <application>FFmpeg</application> installed.
292 </para>
293
294 <para>
295 <option>--disable-a52</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
296 <application>liba52</application> installed.
297 </para>
298
299 <para>
300 <option>--disable-xcb</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
301 <application>X Window System</application> installed.
302 </para>
303
304 <para>
305 <option>--disable-alsa</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
306 <application>ALSA</application> installed.
307 </para>
308
309 <para>
310 <option>--disable-libgcrypt</option>: Use this switch if you don't
311 have <application>libgcrypt</application> installed.
312 </para>
313
314 <note>
315 <para>
316 There are many options to <application>VLC</application>'s
317 <command>configure</command> command. Check the
318 <command>configure --help</command> output for a complete list.
319 </para>
320 </note>
321
322 </sect2>
323
324 <sect2 role="content">
325 <title>Contents</title>
326
327 <segmentedlist>
328 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
329 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
330 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
331
332 <seglistitem>
333 <seg>
334 cvlc, nvlc, qvlc, rvlc, svlc, vlc and vlc-wrapper
335 </seg>
336 <seg>
337 libvlccore.so, libvlc.so, and many plugins in
338 /usr/lib/vlc/plugins
339 </seg>
340 <seg>
341 /usr/{include,lib,share}/vlc and
342 /usr/share/doc/vlc-&vlc-version;
343 </seg>
344 </seglistitem>
345 </segmentedlist>
346
347 <variablelist>
348 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
349 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
350 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
351
352 <varlistentry id="cvlc">
353 <term><command>cvlc</command></term>
354 <listitem>
355 <para>
356 is a script to run VLC with the dummy interface.
357 </para>
358 <indexterm zone="vlc cvlc">
359 <primary sortas="b-cvlc">cvlc</primary>
360 </indexterm>
361 </listitem>
362 </varlistentry>
363
364 <varlistentry id="nvlc">
365 <term><command>nvlc</command></term>
366 <listitem>
367 <para>
368 is a script to run VLC with the ncurses interface.
369 </para>
370 <indexterm zone="vlc nvlc">
371 <primary sortas="b-nvlc">nvlc</primary>
372 </indexterm>
373 </listitem>
374 </varlistentry>
375
376 <varlistentry id="qvlc">
377 <term><command>qvlc</command></term>
378 <listitem>
379 <para>
380 is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with the
381 <application>Qt</application> interface.
382 </para>
383 <indexterm zone="vlc qvlc">
384 <primary sortas="b-qvlc">qvlc</primary>
385 </indexterm>
386 </listitem>
387 </varlistentry>
388
389 <varlistentry id="rvlc">
390 <term><command>rvlc</command></term>
391 <listitem>
392 <para>
393 is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with a command
394 line interface.
395 </para>
396 <indexterm zone="vlc rvlc">
397 <primary sortas="b-rvlc">rvlc</primary>
398 </indexterm>
399 </listitem>
400 </varlistentry>
401
402 <varlistentry id="svlc">
403 <term><command>svlc</command></term>
404 <listitem>
405 <para>
406 is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with the skins
407 interface.
408 </para>
409 <indexterm zone="vlc svlc">
410 <primary sortas="b-svlc">svlc</primary>
411 </indexterm>
412 </listitem>
413 </varlistentry>
414
415 <varlistentry id="vlc-prog">
416 <term><command>vlc</command></term>
417 <listitem>
418 <para>
419 is the <application>VLC</application> media player.
420 </para>
421 <indexterm zone="vlc vlc-prog">
422 <primary sortas="b-vlc">vlc</primary>
423 </indexterm>
424 </listitem>
425 </varlistentry>
426
427 <varlistentry id="vlc-wrapper">
428 <term><command>vlc-wrapper</command></term>
429 <listitem>
430 <para>
431 is a wrapper to drop privileges with <application>VLC</application>.
432 </para>
433 <indexterm zone="vlc vlc-wrapper">
434 <primary sortas="b-vlc-wrapper">vlc-wrapper</primary>
435 </indexterm>
436 </listitem>
437 </varlistentry>
438
439 </variablelist>
440
441 </sect2>
442
443</sect1>
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