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I have a need to have a version of vlc which has no need to have a gui, display the live video, etc. but I do have a need to stream or transcode video from one place to another.

Is there a description somewhere which describes how to build a minimal, no graphics, etc. version of vlc to do this.

On the page listing the current requisit 'libraries' there are about 33 libraries need to be compiled just to 'run' vlc. I realize that such things as audio/video codecs are needed... duh, but are all these packages needed for basically a commandlined based embedded server?

Thanks
John Clark

you'll need ffmpeg libdvbpsi (x264 if you want to encode h264) and maybe some other audio/video decoding libs. You can disable all the other libs. (or just disable everything and add stuff when you need it)