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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
8 "http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/&vlc-version;/vlc-&vlc-version;.tar.xz">
9 <!ENTITY vlc-download-ftp
10 "ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/&vlc-version;/vlc-&vlc-version;.tar.xz">
11 <!ENTITY vlc-md5sum "4f959c0766ada8cea5a72c65fce94ebe">
12 <!ENTITY vlc-size "18 MB">
13 <!ENTITY vlc-buildsize "as much as 600 MB, but likely around 500">
14 <!ENTITY vlc-time "4.0 SBU">
15]>
16
17<sect1 id="vlc" xreflabel="VLC-&vlc-version;">
18 <?dbhtml filename="vlc.html"?>
19
20 <sect1info>
21 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
22 <date>$Date$</date>
23 </sect1info>
24
25 <title>VLC-&vlc-version;</title>
26
27 <indexterm zone="vlc">
28 <primary sortas="a-VLC">VLC</primary>
29 </indexterm>
30
31 <sect2 role="package">
32 <title>Introduction to VLC</title>
33
34 <para>
35 <application>VLC</application> is a media player, streamer, and encoder.
36 It can play from many inputs like files, network streams, capture device,
37 desktops, or DVD, SVCD, VCD, and audio CD. It can play most audio and
38 video codecs (MPEG 1/2/4, H264, VC-1, DivX, WMV, Vorbis, AC3, AAC, etc.),
39 but can also convert to different formats and/or send streams through the
40 network.
41 </para>
42
43 &lfs73_checked;
44
45 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
46 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
47 <listitem>
48 <para>
49 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&vlc-download-http;"/>
50 </para>
51 </listitem>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>
54 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&vlc-download-ftp;"/>
55 </para>
56 </listitem>
57 <listitem>
58 <para>
59 Download MD5 sum: &vlc-md5sum;
60 </para>
61 </listitem>
62 <listitem>
63 <para>
64 Download size: &vlc-size;
65 </para>
66 </listitem>
67 <listitem>
68 <para>
69 Estimated disk space required: &vlc-buildsize;
70 </para>
71 </listitem>
72 <listitem>
73 <para>
74 Estimated build time: &vlc-time;
75 </para>
76 </listitem>
77 </itemizedlist>
78
79 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
80 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
81 <listitem>
82 <para>
83 Required patch:
84 <ulink url="&patch-root;/vlc-&vlc-version;-opencv_fixes-1.patch"/>
85 </para>
86 </listitem>
87 </itemizedlist>
88
89 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">VLC Dependencies</bridgehead>
90
91 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
92 <para role="required">
93 <xref linkend="dbus"/>
94 </para>
95
96 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
97 <para role="recommended">
98 <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
99 <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>,
100 <xref linkend="gnutls"/>,
101 <xref linkend="liba52"/>,
102 <xref linkend="libgcrypt"/>,
103 <xref linkend="libmad"/> and
104 <xref linkend="qt"/> (<application>Qt</application> is required for the
105 graphical user interface; without <application>Qt</application> you will
106 only be able to use the command line or <application>ncurses</application>
107 interface)
108 </para>
109
110 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional input drivers and libraries</bridgehead>
111 <para role="optional">
112 <ulink url="http://www.mcmurchy.com/minizip/minizip-1.2.7.tar.gz">Minizip</ulink>,
113 <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libproxy/">Libproxy</ulink>,
114 <ulink url="http://www.live555.com/">Live555</ulink>,
115 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdc1394/">DC1394</ulink>,
116 <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
117 <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
118 <xref linkend="libdvdnav"/>,
119 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html">libbluray</ulink>,
120 <ulink url="http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/">OpenCV</ulink>,
121 <xref linkend="samba3"/>,
122 <!-- <xref linkend="gvfs"/>, -->
123 <ulink url="http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-utils/">Video4Linux</ulink>,
124 <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/">VCDImager</ulink>
125 (requires <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/">libcdio</ulink>)
126 and <ulink url="http://libcddb.sourceforge.net/">libcddb</ulink>
127 </para>
128
129 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional mux/demux plugins</bridgehead>
130 <para role="optional">
131 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvbpsi.html">libdvbpsi</ulink>,
132 <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/game-music-emu/">Game Music Emu</ulink>,
133 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/sidplay2/files/sidplay2/">sidplay-libs</ulink>
134 (with patches located in contrib/src/sidplay2 subdirectory),
135 <xref linkend="libogg"/>,
136 <ulink url="http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Libshout">libshout</ulink>,
137 <ulink url="http://matroska.org/">libmatroska</ulink>
138 (requires <ulink url="http://matroska.org/">libebml</ulink>),
139 <ulink url="http://modplug-xmms.sourceforge.net/">libmodplug</ulink> and
140 <ulink url="http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=home">Musepack</ulink>
141 </para>
142
143 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional codec plugins</bridgehead>
144 <para role="optional">
145 <ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi">libva</ulink>,
146 <!-- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libshine-fxp/">Shine</ulink>, -->
147 <ulink url="http://www.khronos.org/openmax/">OpenMAX</ulink>,
148 <xref linkend="faad2"/>,
149 <ulink url="http://www.twolame.org/">Twolame</ulink>,
150 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html">libdca</ulink>,
151 <xref linkend="flac"/>,
152 <xref linkend="libmpeg2"/>,
153 <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
154 <ulink url="http://wiki.xiph.org/Tremor">Tremor</ulink>,
155 <xref linkend="speex"/>,
156 <ulink url="http://www.opus-codec.org/">Opus</ulink>,
157 <xref linkend="libtheora"/>,
158 <ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research/">Dirac</ulink>,
159 <ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/download/schroedinger/">Schroedinger</ulink>,
160 <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
161 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html">libx264</ulink>,
162 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/">FluidSynth</ulink>,
163 <ulink url="http://zapping.sourceforge.net/ZVBI/index.html">Zapping VBI</ulink>,
164 <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libass/">libass</ulink>,
165 <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libkate/">libkate</ulink> and
166 <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libtiger/">libtiger</ulink>
167 </para>
168
169 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional video plugins</bridgehead>
170 <para role="optional">
171 <xref linkend="sdl"/>
172 (with <ulink url="http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/">SDL_image</ulink>),
173 <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
174 <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
175 <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
176 <xref linkend="librsvg"/>,
177 <xref linkend="aalib"/> and
178 <ulink url="http://caca.zoy.org/">libcaca</ulink>
179 </para>
180
181 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional audio plugins</bridgehead>
182 <para role="optional">
183 <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
184 <ulink url="http://www.portaudio.com/">PortAudio</ulink>,
185 <ulink url="http://jackaudio.org/">JACK</ulink> and
186 <ulink url="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</ulink>
187 </para>
188
189 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional interface plugins</bridgehead>
190 <para role="optional">
191 <ulink url="http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/">xcb-util-keysyms</ulink>,
192 <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/">LIRC</ulink> and
193 <ulink url="http://www.feep.net/libtar/">libtar</ulink>
194 </para>
195
196 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional visualization plugins</bridgehead>
197 <para role="optional">
198 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/goom/">Goom</ulink> and
199 <ulink url="http://projectm.sourceforge.net/">projectM</ulink>
200 </para>
201
202 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional service discovery plugins</bridgehead>
203 <para role="optional">
204 <xref linkend="avahi"/>,
205 <ulink url="http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/">MTP</ulink> and
206 <ulink url="http://pupnp.sourceforge.net/">UPnP</ulink>
207 </para>
208
209 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional miscellaneous dependencies</bridgehead>
210 <para role="optional">
211 <xref linkend="libxml2"/>,
212 <xref linkend="taglib"/>,
213 <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
214 <ulink url="http://medialibrary.sourceforge.net/">MediaLibrary</ulink>
215 (requires <xref linkend="sqlite"/>) and
216 <ulink url="http://www.lua.org/">Lua</ulink>
217 </para>
218
219 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
220 User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/vlc"/>
221 </para>
222 </sect2>
223
224 <sect2 role="installation">
225 <title>Installation of VLC</title>
226
227 <para>
228 Install <application>VLC</application> by running the following commands:
229 </para>
230
231<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../vlc-&vlc-version;-opencv_fixes-1.patch &amp;&amp;
232sed "s@AM_CONFIG_HEADER@AC_CONFIG_HEADERS@g" -i configure.ac &amp;&amp;
233./bootstrap &amp;&amp;
234sed -e "s@LDFLAGS_sid)@&amp; -L/usr/lib/sidplay/builders@g" \
235 -i modules/demux/Makefile.in &amp;&amp;
236
237./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-lua &amp;&amp;
238make</userinput></screen>
239
240 <para>
241 To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>
242 </para>
243
244 <para>
245 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
246 </para>
247
248<screen role="root"><userinput>make docdir=/usr/share/doc/vlc-&vlc-version; install</userinput></screen>
249
250 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
251 href="../../xincludes/update-icons-and-desktop.xml"/>
252 </sect2>
253
254 <sect2 role="commands">
255 <title>Command Explanations</title>
256
257 <para>
258 <command>./bootstrap</command>: This command is required because the patch
259 modifies <application>Autotools</application> files and
260 <application>VLC</application> uses a custom reconfiguration system.
261 </para>
262
263 <para>
264 <command>sed -e ...</command>: First sed fixes building against the
265 <application>Sidplay2</application> and second sed fixes bootstrap
266 with <application>Automake</application> 1.13.
267 </para>
268
269 <para>
270 <parameter>--disable-lua</parameter>: The package fails to install if
271 <application>Lua</application> is missing. Omit this option if you have
272 installed <application>Lua</application>.
273 </para>
274
275 <para>
276 <option>--disable-avcodec</option>: Use this switch if you don't
277 have <application>FFmpeg</application> installed.
278 </para>
279
280 <para>
281 <option>--disable-a52</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
282 <application>liba52</application> installed.
283 </para>
284
285 <para>
286 <option>--disable-libgcrypt</option>: Use this switch if you don't
287 have <application>libgcrypt</application> installed.
288 </para>
289
290 <para>
291 <option>--disable-mad</option>: Use this switch if you don't
292 have <application>libmad</application> installed.
293 </para>
294
295 <para>
296 <option>--enable-shine</option>: Use this option if you wish to build the
297 <application>Shine</application> plugin.
298 </para>
299
300 <para>
301 <option>--enable-faad</option>: Use this option if you have
302 <application>FAAD</application> installed and wish to build the
303 <application>FAAD</application> plugin.
304 </para>
305
306 <para>
307 <option>--enable-tremor</option>: Use this option if you have
308 <application>Tremor</application> installed and wish to build the
309 <application>Tremor</application> plugin.
310 </para>
311
312 <para>
313 <option>--enable-aa</option>: Use this option if you have
314 <application>AAlib</application> installed and wish to build the
315 <application>AAlib</application> plugin.
316 </para>
317
318 </sect2>
319
320 <sect2 role="content">
321 <title>Contents</title>
322
323 <segmentedlist>
324 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
325 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
326 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
327
328 <seglistitem>
329 <seg>
330 cvlc, qvlc, rvlc, svlc, vlc and vlc-wrapper
331 </seg>
332 <seg>
333 libvlccore.so, libvlc.so and several libraries in
334 /usr/lib/vlc/plugins
335 </seg>
336 <seg>
337 /usr/include/vlc,
338 /usr/lib/vlc,
339 /usr/share/vlc and
340 /usr/share/doc/vlc-&vlc-version;
341 </seg>
342 </seglistitem>
343 </segmentedlist>
344
345 <variablelist>
346 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
347 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
348 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
349
350 <varlistentry id="cvlc">
351 <term><command>cvlc</command></term>
352 <listitem>
353 <para>
354 is a script to run VLC with the dummy interface.
355 </para>
356 <indexterm zone="vlc cvlc">
357 <primary sortas="b-cvlc">cvlc</primary>
358 </indexterm>
359 </listitem>
360 </varlistentry>
361
362 <varlistentry id="qvlc">
363 <term><command>qvlc</command></term>
364 <listitem>
365 <para>
366 is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with the
367 <application>Qt</application> interface.
368 </para>
369 <indexterm zone="vlc qvlc">
370 <primary sortas="b-qvlc">qvlc</primary>
371 </indexterm>
372 </listitem>
373 </varlistentry>
374
375 <varlistentry id="rvlc">
376 <term><command>rvlc</command></term>
377 <listitem>
378 <para>
379 is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with a command
380 line interface.
381 </para>
382 <indexterm zone="vlc rvlc">
383 <primary sortas="b-rvlc">rvlc</primary>
384 </indexterm>
385 </listitem>
386 </varlistentry>
387
388 <varlistentry id="svlc">
389 <term><command>svlc</command></term>
390 <listitem>
391 <para>
392 is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with the skins
393 interface.
394 </para>
395 <indexterm zone="vlc svlc">
396 <primary sortas="b-svlc">svlc</primary>
397 </indexterm>
398 </listitem>
399 </varlistentry>
400
401 <varlistentry id="vlc-prog">
402 <term><command>vlc</command></term>
403 <listitem>
404 <para>
405 is the <application>VLC</application> media player.
406 </para>
407 <indexterm zone="vlc vlc-prog">
408 <primary sortas="b-vlc">vlc</primary>
409 </indexterm>
410 </listitem>
411 </varlistentry>
412
413 <varlistentry id="vlc-wrapper">
414 <term><command>vlc-wrapper</command></term>
415 <listitem>
416 <para>
417 is a wrapper to drop privileges with <application>VLC</application>.
418 </para>
419 <indexterm zone="vlc vlc-wrapper">
420 <primary sortas="b-vlc-wrapper">vlc-wrapper</primary>
421 </indexterm>
422 </listitem>
423 </varlistentry>
424
425 </variablelist>
426
427 </sect2>
428
429</sect1>
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