VLC install location on Mac and Linux

[Westsiide]

I have a music streaming application that launches VLC during its start up. My application targets Windows, Mac, and Linux.

For Mac, I'd like to know where VLC is installed on the target machine in order to launch it. How would I find this out? I didn't notice a VLC.plist file being installed..

For Linux, I found some install information under the /etc/vlc/http directory. However, the .hosts file that is located there has some ip and port information; but nothing as to where the VLC application is located on the target machine.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.. Thanks!

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Mac, it depends on where the user dragged the VLC.app file. On Linux, it depends on the packaging done by the distribution, usually in /usr or /usr/local.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Mac is usually /Applications/