Author: andy
Date: 2012-04-21 07:04:37 -0600 (Sat, 21 Apr 2012)
New Revision: 9965
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/vlc.xml
Log:
make alsa lib a recommended dep of vlc
Modified: trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/vlc.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/vlc.xml 2012-04-21 12:39:08 UTC (rev
9964)
+++ trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/vlc.xml 2012-04-21 13:04:37 UTC (rev
9965)
@@ -31,34 +31,48 @@
<sect2 role="package">
<title>Introduction to VLC</title>
- <para><application>VLC</application> is a media player, streamer, and
- encoder. It can play from many inputs like files, network streams, capture
- device, desktops, or DVD, SVCD, VCD, and audio
- CD. It can play most audio and video codecs (MPEG 1/2/4, H264, VC-1, DivX,
- WMV, Vorbis, AC3, AAC, etc.), but can also convert to different formats
- and/or send streams through the network.</para>
+ <para>
+ <application>VLC</application> is a media player, streamer, and encoder.
+ It can play from many inputs like files, network streams, capture device,
+ desktops, or DVD, SVCD, VCD, and audio CD. It can play most audio and
+ video codecs (MPEG 1/2/4, H264, VC-1, DivX, WMV, Vorbis, AC3, AAC, etc.),
+ but can also convert to different formats and/or send streams through the
+ network.
+ </para>
&lfs70_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
- <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&vlc-download-http;"/></para>
+ <para>
+ Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&vlc-download-http;"/>
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&vlc-download-ftp;"/></para>
+ <para>
+ Download (FTP): <ulink url="&vlc-download-ftp;"/>
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Download MD5 sum: &vlc-md5sum;</para>
+ <para>
+ Download MD5 sum: &vlc-md5sum;
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Download size: &vlc-size;</para>
+ <para>
+ Download size: &vlc-size;
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Estimated disk space required: &vlc-buildsize;</para>
+ <para>
+ Estimated disk space required: &vlc-buildsize;
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Estimated build time: &vlc-time;</para>
+ <para>
+ Estimated build time: &vlc-time;
+ </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -66,131 +80,139 @@
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
<para role="required">
- <xref linkend="dbus"/>
+ <xref linkend="dbus"/>
</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
<para role="recommended">
- <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>,
- <xref linkend="libmad"/>,
- <xref linkend="liba52"/> and
- <xref linkend="qt4"/> (<application>Qt</application>
- is required for the graphical user interface. Without Qt you will only be
able
- to use the command line or <application>ncurses</application>
interface)</para>
+ <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
+ <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libmad"/>,
+ <xref linkend="liba52"/> and
+ <xref linkend="qt4"/> (<application>Qt4</application> is required for the
+ graphical user interface. Without Qt4 you will only be able to use the
+ command line or <application>ncurses</application> interface)
+ </para>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional input drivers and
- libraries</bridgehead>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional input drivers and
libraries</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
- <xref linkend="libproxy"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.live555.com/";>Live555</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdc1394/";>DC1394</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
- <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
- <xref linkend="libdvdnav"/>,
- <ulink
- url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html";>libbluray</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/";>OpenCV</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="samba3"/>,
- <xref linkend="gvfs"/>,
- <ulink url="http://wiki.videolan.org/Libvcdinfo";>libvcdinfo</ulink> and
- <ulink url="http://libcddb.sourceforge.net/";>libcddb</ulink>.</para>
+ <xref linkend="libproxy"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.live555.com/";>Live555</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdc1394/";>DC1394</ulink>,
+ <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libdvdnav"/>,
+ <ulink
url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html";>libbluray</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/";>OpenCV</ulink>,
+ <xref linkend="samba3"/>,
+ <xref linkend="gvfs"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://wiki.videolan.org/Libvcdinfo";>libvcdinfo</ulink> and
+ <ulink url="http://libcddb.sourceforge.net/";>libcddb</ulink>.
+ </para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional mux/demux plugins</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
- <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/game-music-emu/";>Game Music
- Emu</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="libogg"/>,
- <ulink url="http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Libshout";>libshout</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://modplug-xmms.sourceforge.net/";>libmod</ulink> and
- <ulink
- url="http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=home";>Musepack</ulink>.</para>
+ <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/game-music-emu/";>Game Music
Emu</ulink>,
+ <xref linkend="libogg"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Libshout";>libshout</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://modplug-xmms.sourceforge.net/";>libmod</ulink> and
+ <ulink url="http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=home";>Musepack</ulink>.
+ </para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional codec plugins</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libshine-fxp/";>Shine</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.khronos.org/openmax/";>OpenMAX</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.splitted-desktop.com/static/libva/";>libva</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="faad2"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.twolame.org/";>Twolame</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html";>libdca</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="flac"/>,
- <xref linkend="libmpeg2"/>,
- <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
- <xref linkend="speex"/>,
- <xref linkend="libtheora"/>,
- <ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research/";>Dirac</ulink>,
- <ulink
- url="http://diracvideo.org/download/schroedinger/";>Schroedinger</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html";>libx264</ulink>,
- <ulink
- url="http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/";>FluidSynth</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://zapping.sourceforge.net/ZVBI/index.html";>Zapping
- VBI</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libass/";>libass</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libkate/";>libkate</ulink> and
- <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libtiger/";>libtiger</ulink>.</para>
+ <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libshine-fxp/";>Shine</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.khronos.org/openmax/";>OpenMAX</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.splitted-desktop.com/static/libva/";>libva</ulink>,
+ <xref linkend="faad2"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.twolame.org/";>Twolame</ulink>,
+ <ulink
url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html";>libdca</ulink>,
+ <xref linkend="flac"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libmpeg2"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
+ <xref linkend="speex"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libtheora"/>,
+ <ulink
url="http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research/";>Dirac</ulink>,
+ <ulink
url="http://diracvideo.org/download/schroedinger/";>Schroedinger</ulink>,
+ <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
+ <ulink
url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html";>libx264</ulink>,
+ <ulink
url="http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/";>FluidSynth</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://zapping.sourceforge.net/ZVBI/index.html";>Zapping
VBI</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libass/";>libass</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libkate/";>libkate</ulink> and
+ <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/libtiger/";>libtiger</ulink>.
+ </para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional video plugins</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
- <xref linkend="sdl"/>,
- <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
- <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
- <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
- <xref linkend="aalib"/> and
- <ulink url="http://caca.zoy.org/";>libcaca</ulink>.</para>
+ <xref linkend="sdl"/>,
+ <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
+ <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
+ <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
+ <xref linkend="aalib"/> and
+ <ulink url="http://caca.zoy.org/";>libcaca</ulink>.
+ </para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional audio plugins</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
- <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
- <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.portaudio.com/";>PortAudio</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://jackaudio.org/";>JACK</ulink> and
- <ulink url="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/";>libsamplerate</ulink>.</para>
+ <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.portaudio.com/";>PortAudio</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://jackaudio.org/";>JACK</ulink> and
+ <ulink url="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/";>libsamplerate</ulink>.
+ </para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional interface plugins</bridgehead>
- <para role="optional"><ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/";>LIRC</ulink> and
- <ulink url="http://www.feep.net/libtar/";>libtar</ulink>.</para>
+ <para role="optional">
+ <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/";>LIRC</ulink> and
+ <ulink url="http://www.feep.net/libtar/";>libtar</ulink>.
+ </para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional visualization plugins</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/goom/";>Goom</ulink> and
- <ulink url="http://projectm.sourceforge.net/";>projectM</ulink>.</para>
+ <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/goom/";>Goom</ulink> and
+ <ulink url="http://projectm.sourceforge.net/";>projectM</ulink>.
+ </para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional service discovery
plugins</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
- <ulink url="http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/";>MTP</ulink> and
- <ulink url="http://pupnp.sourceforge.net/";>UPnP</ulink>.</para>
+ <ulink url="http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/";>MTP</ulink> and
+ <ulink url="http://pupnp.sourceforge.net/";>UPnP</ulink>.
+ </para>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional miscellaneous
- dependencies</bridgehead>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional miscellaneous
dependencies</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
- <xref linkend="libgcrypt"/>,
- <xref linkend="gnutls"/>,
- <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
- <xref linkend="taglib"/>,
- <ulink url="http://medialibrary.sourceforge.net/";>MediaLibrary</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="sqlite"/> and
- <ulink url="http://www.lua.org/";>Lua</ulink>.</para>
+ <xref linkend="libgcrypt"/>,
+ <xref linkend="gnutls"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
+ <xref linkend="taglib"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://medialibrary.sourceforge.net/";>MediaLibrary</ulink>,
+ <xref linkend="sqlite"/> and
+ <ulink url="http://www.lua.org/";>Lua</ulink>.
+ </para>
- <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
- <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/vlc"/></para>
+ <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
+ User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/vlc"/>
+ </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of VLC</title>
- <para>Install <application>VLC</application> by running the following
- commands:</para>
+ <para>
+ Install <application>VLC</application> by running the following commands:
+ </para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-lua &&
make</userinput></screen>
- <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command></para>
+ <para>
+ To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>
+ </para>
- <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
- user:</para>
+ <para>
+ Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+ </para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
@@ -198,15 +220,26 @@
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
- <para><parameter>--disable-lua</parameter>: The package fails to install if
- Lua is missing. Omit this option if you have Lua.</para>
- <para><parameter>--disable-avcodec</parameter>: Use this switch if you
don't
- have ffmpeg.</para>
- <para><parameter>--disable-mad</parameter>: Use this switch if you don't
- have libmad.</para>
- <para><parameter>--disable-a52</parameter>: Use this switch if you don't
- have liba52.</para>
-
+ <para>
+ <parameter>--disable-lua</parameter>: The package fails to install if
+ <application>Lua</application> is missing. Omit this option if you have
+ installed <application>Lua</application>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <parameter>--disable-avcodec</parameter>: Use this switch if you don't
+ have <application>FFmpeg</application> installed.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <parameter>--disable-mad</parameter>: Use this switch if you don't
+ have <application>libmad</application> installed.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <parameter>--disable-a52</parameter>: Use this switch if you don't have
+ <application>liba52</application> installed.
+ </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
@@ -220,9 +253,9 @@
<seglistitem>
<seg>cvlc, qvlc, rvlc, svlc, vlc and vlc-wrapper</seg>
<seg>libvlccore.so, libvlc.so and several libraries in
- /usr/lib/vlc/plugins</seg>
+ /usr/lib/vlc/plugins.</seg>
<seg>/usr/lib/vlc, /usr/include/vlc, /usr/share/vlc and
- /usr/share/doc/vlc</seg>
+ /usr/share/doc/vlc.</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
@@ -234,7 +267,9 @@
<varlistentry id="cvlc">
<term><command>cvlc</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>script to run VLC with the dummy interface</para>
+ <para>
+ is a script to run VLC with the dummy interface.
+ </para>
<indexterm zone="vlc cvlc">
<primary sortas="b-cvlc">cvlc</primary>
</indexterm>
@@ -244,7 +279,10 @@
<varlistentry id="qvlc">
<term><command>qvlc</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>script to run VLC with the QT4 interface</para>
+ <para>
+ is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with the
+ <application>QT4</application> interface.
+ </para>
<indexterm zone="vlc qvlc">
<primary sortas="b-qvlc">qvlc</primary>
</indexterm>
@@ -254,7 +292,10 @@
<varlistentry id="rvlc">
<term><command>rvlc</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>script to run VLC with a command line interface</para>
+ <para>
+ is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with a command
+ line interface.
+ </para>
<indexterm zone="vlc rvlc">
<primary sortas="b-rvlc">rvlc</primary>
</indexterm>
@@ -264,7 +305,10 @@
<varlistentry id="svlc">
<term><command>svlc</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>script to run VLC with the skins interface</para>
+ <para>
+ is a script to run <application>VLC</application> with the skins
+ interface.
+ </para>
<indexterm zone="vlc svlc">
<primary sortas="b-svlc">svlc</primary>
</indexterm>
@@ -274,7 +318,9 @@
<varlistentry id="vlc-prog">
<term><command>vlc</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>the VLC media player</para>
+ <para>
+ is the <application>VLC</application> media player.
+ </para>
<indexterm zone="vlc vlc-prog">
<primary sortas="b-vlc">vlc</primary>
</indexterm>
@@ -284,7 +330,9 @@
<varlistentry id="vlc-wrapper">
<term><command>vlc-wrapper</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>a wrapper to drop privileges with VLC</para>
+ <para>
+ is a wrapper to drop privileges with <application>VLC</application>
+ </para>
<indexterm zone="vlc vlc-wrapper">
<primary sortas="b-vlc-wrapper">vlc-wrapper</primary>
</indexterm>
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