Compiling VLC0) Prerequisites:=================   It is necessary that both libtool and autoconf are available on the system.                       apt-get install autoconf libtool1) Package dependencies=======================  a) Install from rpm [NOTE: for each package X, the package "X-devel" is also required]:  --imlib2:          a replacement X library with improved features (ffmpeg depends on this)  --gettext:         support for multi-lingual messages in programs  --freetype:        true-type font rendering engine  --zlib:            lossless data compression library  --libxml2:         read, write, modify, and parse XML and HTML files  --libvorbis:       runtime support for Ogg Vorbis  --libraw1394:      direct access to the IEEE-1394 bus (this package is optional)  --libpostproc:     mplayer's post-processing library (for transcoding, e.g.)                            Under Debian:                            *************  apt-get install libimlib2 libimlib2-dev gettext libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev \                  zlib1g zlib1g-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libvorbis0a libvorbis-dev \                  libraw1394-5 libraw1394-dev  1b) wx Windows:  ---------------     (a) Fedora needs the following RPMs:             wxGTK-2.4.2-12.i386.rpm wxGTK-common-2.4.2-12.i386.rpm             wxGTK-stc-2.4.2-12.i386.rpm wxGTK-xrc-2.4.2-12.i386.rpm             wxGTK-devel-2.4.2-12.i386.rpm wxGTK-common-devel-2.4.2-12.i386.rpm     (b) Under Debian:             apt-get install libwxgtk2.6-0  libwxgtk2.6-dev wx2.6-headers2) Check that pthreads are available (/usr/lib/libpthread*, in glibc-devel RPM)3) Compile supporting packages:===============================  --fribidi:         support for the arabic/Hebrew alphabets  --openslp:         open-source implementation of the Service Location Protocol  --libebml:         (used by libmatroska)                        cd make/linux; make && make install  --libmatroska:     extensible open standard Audio/Video container format                        cd make/linux; make && make install  --libiconv:        GNU character conversion library4) Compile all codecs:======================  --a52dec:         decoder for ATSC A/52 or AC-3 audio format  --libogg:         Ogg bitstream format library (RFC 3533)  --flac:          `Free Lossless Audio Codec' -- Ogg Vorbis in a lossless way  --faac:           `Freeware Advanced Audio Coder' based on ISO MPEG-4 reference code                    for MPEG-4 ISO AAC files  --faad2:          a HE, LC, MAIN and LTP profile, MPEG2 and MPEG-4 AAC decoder.  --lame:           MP3 encoder, includes libmp3lame  --libid3tag:      reading/writing ID3 tags in MP3 files (requires zlib)  --libmad:         MP3 audio decoder  --toolame:        optimized MPEG 1/2  layer-2 audio encoder                       make                       mv toolame stoolame /usr/local/bin                       mv libtoolame/libtoolame.a /usr/local/lib  --libspeex:       open source voice codec (e.g. for VoIP)  --pa (portaudio): audio I/O library  --x264:           H.264 video codec                    get the latest from http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html  --mpeg2dec:       libmpeg2 is a free library for decoding mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video streams.  --libtheora:      theora video codec, intended to be used with the Ogg multimedia stream.  --xvidcore:       ISO MPEG-4 compliant open-source codec                       cd ${xvidcore}/build/generic                       ./configure                       in the file `platform.inc', remove the option                       "-freduce-all-givs" from the CFLAGS options (does not work with gcc)                       make && make install  --libdts:         audio decoder for audio frames encoded using DTS Coherent Acoustics  --libpostproc:    (if not already installed via rpm) This is part of the mplayer package.                       mkdir -p  /usr/local/lib/codecs                         ==> extract all windows codecs to this directory                         ==> then build the mplayer                    After building mplayer: cd libavcodec/libpostproc; make && make install5) Build ffmpeg===============  After performing the above steps, do a `ldconfig' first.  Use the `run-ffmpeg' script provided in this directory for a number  of options that worked in my case.6) Compile additional packages==============================  --goom2k4:        xmmms visualisation plugin  --libmodlug:      ModPlug plugin for xmms  --libcddb:        CDDB database access                     --> in case of compilation trouble, exclude `examples'                     from the SUBDIRS variable in the Makefile7) Compile packages to access DVB and DVD=========================================  --libdvbpsi:      support for demultiplexing a satellite DVB stream  --libdvdread:     foundation for reading DVD-Video images  --libdvdcss:      portable abstraction library for DVD decryption  --libdvdnav:      support for DVD navigation features8) Compile VLC==============  Use the `run-vlc' script to generate vlc. The directory locations used in  that script may have to be adapted to the location of source files.  NOTE:  At the very end of the compilation, during linking, the compiler complains  about unresolved symbols in     .... ffmpeg/libavformat/libavformat.a  These symbols are contained in     .... ffmpeg/libavutil/libavutil.a  To resolve the problem,    1) copy and past the last compilation command, i.e. g++ -W ....,       into a file.    2) after -L <...>/ffmpeg/libavformat , add the following two lines:          <...>/ffmpeg/libavutil/libavutil.a  \        -L<...>/ffmpeg/libavutil   -lavutil  \  Finally, in order to enable the use of dynamically loadable codecs,  copy the codecs used by mplayer located in /usr/local/lib/codecs  to /usr/local/lib/win32 (or install a symlink); vlc depends on this  directory.    OTHER VLC PROBLEMS  ------------------  * In case of any trouble, try `vlc -vv -l' to see diagnostic output.   * It is also good to do a `rm -fr $HOME/.vlc', since stale configuration    information may be stored in that directory.  * using pthreads (--enable-pth) on dual-processor machines proved not a good idea,    video screen stopped working.  * With vlc-0.8.4a I had the problem that libcdio caused problems with the wx widgets     plugin which could therefore not be loaded. The fix was to `make uninstall' the     libcdio package in /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include, and recompile.  * The build process stops with cc1plus complaining about the invalid flag `-mtune=pentium2'    in the file vlc-config. Commenting out the respective line resolves this hang-up.