Purposely separated this post from prior : SUSE 11.4 64-bit w/KDE compile errors for latest VLC etc
Downloaded all source-code. Tried compiling dependencies both from VideoLan.Org's host as well as the particular dependencies' individual hosts (e.g. ffmpeg I tried to compile from both VideoLan's tarball as well as from it's producer's)
Two errors arose, the "primary" is when using make on the VLC directory
{
make[5]: Entering directory `/home/argon/vlc-1.1.10/modules/access'
CCLD libaccess_avio_plugin.la
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libavformat.a(allformats.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `ff_a64_muxer' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/libavformat.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
}
The FFMPEG had various compilation problems most of which were solved, to where it finally spat out without an error. So, I will ignore that for now.
Thanks.