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Last change on this file since dae9ec4 was 716c8f8a, checked in by Fernando de Oliveira <fernando@…>, 10 years ago

Fix VLC-2.1.1 to build with FreeType-2.5.1.

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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 "1331cd853d56762c96afcb92dd498348">
12 <!ENTITY vlc-size "19 MB">
13 <!ENTITY vlc-buildsize "353 MB">
14 <!ENTITY vlc-time "2.7 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 &lfs74_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;-freetype-1.patch"/>
85 </para>
86 </listitem>
87 </itemizedlist>
88
89 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">VLC Dependencies</bridgehead>
90
91 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
92 <para role="recommended">
93 <xref linkend="lua"/>,
94 <xref linkend="libmad"/>,
95 <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>,
96 <xref linkend="liba52"/>,
97 <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
98 <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>, and
99 <xref linkend="libgcrypt"/>
100 </para>
101
102 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional features and packages</bridgehead>
103 <para role="optional">
104 <xref linkend="dbus"/>
105 </para>
106
107 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional input plugins</bridgehead>
108 <para role="optional">
109 <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libproxy/">libproxy</ulink>,
110 <ulink url="http://www.live555.com/">Live555</ulink>,
111 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdc1394/">libdc1394</ulink>,
112 <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
113 <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
114 <xref linkend="libdvdnav"/>,
115 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html">libbluray</ulink>,
116 <ulink url="http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/">OpenCV</ulink>,
117 <xref linkend="samba"/>,
118 <ulink url="http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-utils/">Video4Linux</ulink>,
119 <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/">VCDImager</ulink>
120 (requires <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/">libcdio</ulink>)
121 and <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcddb/">libcddb</ulink>
122 </para>
123
124 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional mux/demux plugins</bridgehead>
125 <para role="optional">
126 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvbpsi.html">libdvbpsi</ulink>,
127 <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/game-music-emu/">Game Music Emu</ulink>,
128 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/sidplay2/">sidplay-libs</ulink>,
129 <xref linkend="libogg"/>,
130 <ulink url="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/libshout/">libshout</ulink>,
131 <ulink url="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libmatroska/">libmatroska</ulink>
132 (requires <ulink url="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libebml/">libebml</ulink>),
133 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/modplug-xmms/">libmodplug</ulink> and
134 <ulink url="http://www.musepack.net/">Musepack</ulink>
135 </para>
136
137 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional codec plugins</bridgehead>
138 <para role="optional">
139 <xref linkend="libva"/>,
140 <ulink url="http://www.khronos.org/openmax/">OpenMAX</ulink>,
141 <xref linkend="faad2"/>,
142 <ulink url="http://www.twolame.org/">Twolame</ulink>,
143 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html">libdca</ulink>,
144 <xref linkend="flac"/>,
145 <xref linkend="libmpeg2"/>,
146 <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
147 <ulink url="http://wiki.xiph.org/Tremor">Tremor</ulink>,
148 <xref linkend="speex"/>,
149 <xref linkend="opus"/>,
150 <xref linkend="libtheora"/>,
151 <ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research/">Dirac</ulink>,
152 <ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/download/schroedinger/">Schroedinger</ulink>,
153 <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
154 <xref linkend="x264"/>,
155 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidsynth/">FluidSynth</ulink>,
156 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/zapping/">Zapping VBI</ulink>,
157 <xref linkend="libass"/>,
158 <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libkate/">libkate</ulink> and
159 <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libtiger/">libtiger</ulink>
160 </para>
161
162 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional video plugins</bridgehead>
163 <para role="optional">
164 <xref linkend="libvdpau"/>,
165 <xref linkend="sdl"/>
166 (with <ulink url="http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/">SDL_image</ulink>),
167 <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
168 <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
169 <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
170 <xref linkend="librsvg"/>,
171 <xref linkend="aalib"/> and
172 <ulink url="http://caca.zoy.org/">libcaca</ulink>
173 </para>
174
175 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional audio plugins</bridgehead>
176 <para role="optional">
177 <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
178 <ulink url="http://jackaudio.org/">JACK</ulink>, and
179 <xref linkend="libsamplerate"/>
180 </para>
181
182 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional interface plugins</bridgehead>
183 <para role="optional">
184 <xref linkend="qt4"/> (required for the graphical user interface),
185 <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/">LIRC</ulink>, and
186 <ulink url="http://www.feep.net/libtar/">libtar</ulink>
187 </para>
188
189 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional visualisations and video filter plugins</bridgehead>
190 <para role="optional">
191 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/goom/">Goom</ulink> and
192 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/projectm/">projectM</ulink>
193 </para>
194
195 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional service discovery plugins</bridgehead>
196 <para role="optional">
197 <xref linkend="avahi"/>,
198 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmtp/">libmtp</ulink> and
199 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pupnp/">libupnp</ulink>
200 </para>
201
202 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Miscellaneous options</bridgehead>
203 <para role="optional">
204 <xref linkend="gnutls"/>,
205 <xref linkend="libxml2"/>,
206 <xref linkend="taglib"/>, and
207 <xref linkend="libnotify"/>
208 </para>
209
210 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
211 User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/vlc"/>
212 </para>
213 </sect2>
214
215 <sect2 role="installation">
216 <title>Installation of VLC</title>
217
218 <para>
219 Install <application>VLC</application> by running the following commands:
220 </para>
221
222<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../vlc-&vlc-version;-freetype-1.patch &amp;&amp;
223sed -i 's:libsmbclient.h:samba-4.0/&amp;:' modules/access/smb.c &amp;&amp;
224./bootstrap &amp;&amp;
225./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
226make</userinput></screen>
227
228 <para>
229 To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
230 </para>
231
232 <para>
233 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
234 </para>
235
236 <note>
237 <para>
238 If the XORG_PREFIX is not /usr, make sure the LIBRARY_PATH
239 environment variable is set properly when doing the install, For example:
240 <command>sudo make LIBRARY_PATH=$XORG_PREFIX/lib ... install</command>.
241 </para>
242 </note>
243
244<screen role="root"><userinput>make docdir=/usr/share/doc/vlc-&vlc-version; install</userinput></screen>
245
246 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
247 href="../../xincludes/update-icons-and-desktop.xml"/>
248
249 </sect2>
250
251 <sect2 role="commands">
252 <title>Command Explanations</title>
253
254 <para>
255 <command>sed -i ...</command>: This sed fixes compilation with
256 <application>Samba</application> 4.
257 </para>
258
259 <para>
260 <command>./bootstrap</command>: This command calls autoreconf to generate
261 m4 macros and prepare Makefiles.
262 </para>
263
264 <para>
265 <option>--disable-lua</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
266 <application>Lua</application> installed.
267 </para>
268
269 <para>
270 <option>--disable-mad</option>: Use this switch if you don't
271 have <application>libmad</application> installed.
272 </para>
273
274 <para>
275 <option>--disable-avcodec --disable-swscale</option>: Use these switches
276 if you don't have <application>FFmpeg</application> installed.
277 </para>
278
279 <para>
280 <option>--disable-a52</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
281 <application>liba52</application> installed.
282 </para>
283
284 <para>
285 <option>--disable-xcb</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
286 <application>X Window System</application> installed.
287 </para>
288
289 <para>
290 <option>--disable-alsa</option>: Use this switch if you don't have
291 <application>ALSA</application> installed.
292 </para>
293
294 <para>
295 <option>--disable-libgcrypt</option>: Use this switch if you don't
296 have <application>libgcrypt</application> installed.
297 </para>
298
299<!--
300 <para>
301 <option>- -enable-shine</option>: Use this option if you wish to build the
302 <application>Shine</application> plugin.
303 </para>
304
305 <para>
306 <option>- -enable-tremor</option>: Use this option if you have
307 <application>Tremor</application> installed and wish to build the
308 <application>Tremor</application> plugin.
309 </para>
310
311 <para>
312 <option>- -enable-aa</option>: Use this option if you have
313 <application>AAlib</application> installed and wish to build the
314 <application>AAlib</application> plugin.
315 </para>
316-->
317
318 <note>
319 <para>
320 There are many options to <application>VLC</application>'s
321 <command>configure</command> command. Check the
322 <command>configure --help</command> output for a complete list.
323 </para>
324 </note>
325
326 </sect2>
327
328 <sect2 role="content">
329 <title>Contents</title>
330
331 <segmentedlist>
332 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
333 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
334 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
335
336 <seglistitem>
337 <seg>
338 cvlc, nvlc, qvlc, rvlc, svlc, vlc and vlc-wrapper
339 </seg>
340 <seg>
341 libvlccore.so, libvlc.so and several libraries in
342 /usr/lib/vlc/plugins
343 </seg>
344 <seg>
345 /usr/include/vlc,
346 /usr/lib/vlc,
347 /usr/share/vlc and
348 /usr/share/doc/vlc-&vlc-version;
349 </seg>
350 </seglistitem>
351 </segmentedlist>
352
353 <variablelist>
354 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
355 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
356 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
357
358 <varlistentry id="cvlc">
359 <term><command>cvlc</command></term>
360 <listitem>
361 <para>
362 is a script to run VLC with the dummy interface.
363 </para>
364 <indexterm zone="vlc cvlc">
365 <primary sortas="b-cvlc">cvlc</primary>
366 </indexterm>
367 </listitem>
368 </varlistentry>
369
370 <varlistentry id="nvlc">
371 <term><command>nvlc</command></term>
372 <listitem>
373 <para>
374 is a script to run VLC with the ncurses interface.
375 </para>
376 <indexterm zone="vlc nvlc">
377 <primary sortas="b-nvlc">nvlc</primary>
378 </indexterm>
379 </listitem>
380 </varlistentry>
381
382 <varlistentry id="qvlc">
383 <term><command>qvlc</command></term>
384 <listitem>
385 <para>
386 is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with the
387 <application>Qt</application> interface.
388 </para>
389 <indexterm zone="vlc qvlc">
390 <primary sortas="b-qvlc">qvlc</primary>
391 </indexterm>
392 </listitem>
393 </varlistentry>
394
395 <varlistentry id="rvlc">
396 <term><command>rvlc</command></term>
397 <listitem>
398 <para>
399 is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with a command
400 line interface.
401 </para>
402 <indexterm zone="vlc rvlc">
403 <primary sortas="b-rvlc">rvlc</primary>
404 </indexterm>
405 </listitem>
406 </varlistentry>
407
408 <varlistentry id="svlc">
409 <term><command>svlc</command></term>
410 <listitem>
411 <para>
412 is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with the skins
413 interface.
414 </para>
415 <indexterm zone="vlc svlc">
416 <primary sortas="b-svlc">svlc</primary>
417 </indexterm>
418 </listitem>
419 </varlistentry>
420
421 <varlistentry id="vlc-prog">
422 <term><command>vlc</command></term>
423 <listitem>
424 <para>
425 is the <application>VLC</application> media player.
426 </para>
427 <indexterm zone="vlc vlc-prog">
428 <primary sortas="b-vlc">vlc</primary>
429 </indexterm>
430 </listitem>
431 </varlistentry>
432
433 <varlistentry id="vlc-wrapper">
434 <term><command>vlc-wrapper</command></term>
435 <listitem>
436 <para>
437 is a wrapper to drop privileges with <application>VLC</application>.
438 </para>
439 <indexterm zone="vlc vlc-wrapper">
440 <primary sortas="b-vlc-wrapper">vlc-wrapper</primary>
441 </indexterm>
442 </listitem>
443 </varlistentry>
444
445 </variablelist>
446
447 </sect2>
448
449</sect1>
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