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There are VLC binaries available for the many OSes, but not for all supported ones. If there are no binaries for your OS or if you want to change the default settings, you can compile VLC from sources.
VLC works under Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP.
Download the self-extracting package from the VLC Windows
download page. Launch the .exe
to install
VLC.
Download the Mac OS X package from the VLC
MacOS X download page. Double-click on the icon of the
package : an icon will appear on your Desktop, right beside your
drive(s). Open it and drag the VLC application from the resulting
window to the place where you want to install it (it should be
/Applications
).
Download the Zip file from the VLC BeOS download page. Unzip the file in a directory to install VLC.
Add the following lines to your
/etc/apt/sources.list
:
deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian woody main deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian woody main
Then, for a normal install, do:
#
apt-get update
#
apt-get install gnome-vlc libdvdcss2
Add the following lines to your
/etc/apt/sources.list
:
deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main
Then, for a normal install, do:
#
apt-get update
#
apt-get install wxvlc libdvdcss2
You should not be using Debian testing unless you perfectly know what you are doing. It is almost impossible to support Debian testing and there are no plans to do it. For more informations on Debian testing, please look: testing page
There are VLC packages for Mandrake 9.1 and cooker.
To install them, add the following sources for either Mandrake 9.1 or Cooker (you can use Easy urpmi for that): contrib from the core distribution and plf (Penguin Liberation Front) from the external add-ons.
Then install the required packages with urpmi:
#
urpmi libdvdcss2 libdvdplay0 wxvlc vlc-plugin-a52 vlc-plugin-ogg vlc-plugin-mad
Download the RPM package vlc and the packages listed in the required libraries and codecs section (the other packages are optional) from the VLC Red Hat download page and put them all into the same directory.
Then install the RPM packages you have downloaded:
#
rpm -U *.rpm
If you have not installed all the RPM packages included with your distribution, you may be asked to install a few of them first.
For more detailed information on compiling VLC by yourself, please have a look at the documentation on our developers website.
Drag the VLC application to your trash can. You can also
remove the configuration file and the cache files in
~/Library/Preferences/VLC/
. There is
an AppleScript on the disk-image which lets you do this
automatically.
Delete the vlc-version
directory. You can also remove the configuration file
/boot/home/config/settings/vlcrc
.
Remove the packages that you installed:
#
apt-get remove --purge wxvlc vlc-mad libdvdcss2 libdvbpsi1
Uninstall the RPM packages that you installed:
#
rpm -e vlc-version vlc-mad-version wxvlc-version libdvdcss2-version libdvdpsi1-version