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We have our sites hosted on a shared Linux server, so we need a script that can be installed inside our space, not requiring root access. Can we do this using VLC Media Player? (or other suggestion ???)

Thanks!

Your question does not make much sense as it is. You need to clarify it.

Okay, happy to try again. In a shared hosting environment (Dathorn, BlueHost, Host Gator, and the like), each customer buys a space on the server(s), but no customer has access to the root, as he root user, of any server. (To the best of my understanding) So one can install scripts, such as WordPress, all the Fantastico scripts, and the like, but one can never install an application as if one were administrator of the machine.

So, I'm wondering whether VideoLAN Media Center can be installed in such a way, as a script in a user space in a shared hosting environment, or whether it must be installed as a full-blown application requiring admin privileges.

I realize that I may not be using the most technically correct terminology here, and I'm happy to be corrected, of course.

Does this seem more clear?

You can install applications without root. So this question still makes no sense to me.

Obviously VLC is not a script. You cannot write a reasonably fast multimedia pipeline in an interpreted language.