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OK I fixed this one. For the record, the problem comes from the version of m4. I downloaded the m4 binary version 1.4.16. The autoconf tool now compiles (it did not before). Now the configuration os the compilation of vlc itself fails: checking for mad.h... yes checking for mad_bit_init in -lmad... ...

It seems like something called 'autoreconf' is missing in the msys package.
I do not know these tools. Can anyone help me to understand ?

There is a file named configure.ac in the vlc root directory. My understanding is that autoreconf should use it to generate a file named 'configure'...

Hi I need to buils VLC natively on windows 7 (professional edition, 64bits). I follow the instructions strictly. At the 'precompiled 3rd party libraries' step, on 'make prebuilt', a few error logs are listed, like Cannot create symlink to `libpng16.la': No such file or directory . Same for "cac...

Thank you for your answers. I tried just launching several media player, each with its own media. I observed lacks of synchronization after a few minutes. So you say I need to patch libVLC to achieve synchronous reading. I'm completely new to libVLC, I use vlc-qt from Tadej Novak. I think I'm gonna ...

Yes, same encoder, same encoding format, same framerate.
I'm not sure for the picture size.

Hi I would like to develop a video player based on libVlc to display several videos (up to 5) with frame accurate synchronization. It is something like using the --input-slave option of the VLC command line. I do not find how to do this using the libVlc API. For example using libvlc_media_player_set...