HOWTO on building VLC from source on CentOS 5.0/RHEL 5

[notmistaken]

I've just completed building VLC from source on my CentOS 5.0 x86 box. My goal was to include as many of the configuration options as possible, so that I had a fully featured build of VLC. I've documented how I did this and I thought that it might be worth sharing. This article may also be of some use to users building for other distributions of Linux.

See http://andcher.homeip.net/tiki-read_art ... rticleId=2

The article includes a list of all the third party libraries used to build VLC and where I found the files to download. I also have an article on building FFmpeg which I built prior to building VLC.

I would be interested in any comments on the article.
/Andrew

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Good one.
Anyway, building with wx2.8 might give you some sound control problem.
Can we link to it on our wiki ?

[kwizart]

That's a nice work, but you will enter into problem when someone will compile dirac 0.8.0 and compile with vlc 0.8.6c as this will need some patches...

A better way for doing it better would be to recompile from srpms from the livna packages SRPMS...

Looking at rpmfusion.org, there is a plan to have CentOS 5 built of vlc from this Repository...
I could eventually provide a CentoS5 pre-built repository for CentOS5 but it will likely be replaced with rpmfusion.org

[notmistaken]

I have just moved this documentation to a new home, my company's new website, http://itoke.net. I have done a few minor edits and have reformatted the source from TikiWiki to standard Wiki format (painful! Anybody know of any tools to do that?).

These documents explain how to build VLC and FFmpeg from source on a CentOS 5.x (RHEL5).
The HOWTO Build for VLC is here: http://itoke.net/wiki/index.php/iToke:Vlcbuild
and the HOWTO Build for FFmpeg is here: http://itoke.net/wiki/index.php/iToke:Ffmpegbuild

I haven't had a need to rebuild these tools since the Spring and in the meantime my machine has been fully patched up from CentOS 5.0 to 5.2; everything still works. However, I will be revisiting these builds soon because I need them for building my opensource project, https://sourceforge.net/projects/itoke/.

Regards,
/Andrew Easson
http://itoke.net

[kwizart]

Please consider joining efforts to rpmfusion.org
Most vlc dependencies will be available from there.

For now I still wonder either I will provide a vlc-0.8.7 "pre-version" or a 0.9.2 one.

[notmistaken]

Could you please explain to me what rpmfusion does? It's the first I've heard of it. I went on the website but couldn't figure out what to do (but I seem to have trouble with most web sites, it seems!).

I'd like to know what these vlc dependencies you are talking about are stored. I've also never made an rpm package and I am not familiar with the command line options to do this (rpm has a lot of options!). So, I'm looking for help.

You can find me here, http://itoke.net. You can email me, if you have docs to send me. My email address is in my CV, http://itoke.net/wiki/index.php/iToke:Andrewcv.

[kwizart]

Well, you can subscribe to the mailing list...
Then learning rpm isn't hard, (i's harder to think which ./configure option to pick for which vlc dependency)

But sorry i don't give personnels courses over email, you can find lot of doc on the fedoraproject.org wiki.