authors Ruwen Boehm Kaj de Vos status testing title VideoLAN Client headline Multimedia player and streaming server description VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. It doesn't need any external codec or program to work. licenses GPL home www.videolan.org locations http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.9.8a/ ; configuring gives a lot of warnings, several other libraries should be ported so vlc can unfold all its power needs libgcrypt recommends zlib sdl sdl-image libpng libjpeg libtiff wxwidgets qt >= 4 glib hal gecko portaudio freetype gettext gnupg gnutls expat libxml2 ffmpeg libmpeg2 libmad lame twolame faad 2 faac libcddb libcdio libogg libvorbis tremor libtheora matroska flac libspeex liba52 x264 ; libdv ; libxvidcore libdca libdvdread libdvdnav libdvdcss libdvbpsi libopenslp fribidi livemedia dirac libmpcdec libebml shout livedotcom vcdimager opendaap libid3tag taglib goom2k4 libcaca libmodplug libidl clinkcc avahi upnp build-recommends pkg-config nasm perl libtool libiconv libunicows configure-options --enable-ncurses ; --disable-wxwidgets --disable-skins2 ; --enable-directfb ; --disable-fb ; --enable-loader ; --disable-plugins ; --enable-mozilla ; --with-mad=/usr/libmad ; --with-mad-tree=/usr/libmad ; needed since jump from 0.8.6f to 0.9.8a --disable-a52 --disable-glx documentation README COPYING ABOUT-NLS NEWS ChangeLog MAINTAINERS AUTHORS THANKS ; doc internal-docs HACKING