User:J-b

General presentation

Hello!

My name is Jean-Baptiste Kempf and my nickname is jb or j-b, in the VideoLAN community.

I am one of the main VLC media player developer and the president of the VideoLAN non-profit organization.

My personal website explains a bit more who I am and what I do.

Education

I graduated in one of the best 'Grandes Ecoles', best scientific schools and universities in France: the "Ecole Centrale Paris".

My degree "Ingénieur de l'école Centrale Paris", which is also a Master's Degree.

I also earned a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Paris.

VideoLAN

I have been working on the VideoLAN project in many aspects since 2006 and I am very involved, doing a large variety of things, not only development.

As a developer, I mostly program Qt4 interface. I also work a lot on contribs and external libraries and FourCC supports. I have built VLC media player on most possible platform (no BeOS, though).

As a non-developer, I moderate e-mails, worked a lot on this wiki (almost rewritten it with User:H2g2bob), answer forums and mails, work on the websites and help on IRC. As you can imagine, I do a lot of support.

jb (at) videolan (d0t) org is my mail, related to VideoLAN. My Website (far from being finished) is my website.

Use my talk page to talk to me or give me some TODOs.

Wiki

I have rewritten a lot of pages on this wiki, and I have more than 1000 edits on this wiki.

Names

I am known under 'j-b', 'jb' on all the VideoLAN Sites.

My VLC

These are my tips to help you build the best VLC ever. I use debian/sid, for many reasons.

External libraries

apt-get build-dep vlc libdvdcss2

apt-get install nasm yasm libasm-dev

Get VLC

 git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git

 cd vlc; ./bootstrap 

 cd extras;

x264 (optional)

 git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git x264-trunk

 cd x264-trunk; ./configure --prefix=/usr; make

live555 (optional)

wget http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/live555-latest.tar.gz

tar xvzf live555-latest.tar.gz
cd live

sh genMakefiles linux;
make

ffmpeg (mandatory)

cd vlc-trunk/extras
git clone git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg

ffmpeg configure line

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaac --enable-nonfree

 make 

VLC configure line

mkdir build && cd build && ../configure --prefix=/usr \
        --enable-snapshot --enable-debug \
        --enable-dbus-control --enable-musicbrainz \
        --enable-shared-libvlc --enable-mozilla \
        --enable-lirc \
        --enable-live555 --with-live555-tree=../extras/live \
        --enable-x264 --with-x264-tree=../extras/x264-trunk \
        --enable-shout --enable-taglib \
        --enable-v4l --enable-cddax \
        --enable-dvb --enable-vcdx \
        --enable-realrtsp --enable-xvmc \
        --enable-svg   --enable-dvdread \
        --enable-dc1394 --enable-dv \
        --enable-theora --enable-faad \
        --enable-twolame --enable-real \
        --enable-flac --enable-tremor \
        --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --with-ffmpeg-faac \
        --enable-quicktime --enable-dirac \
        --enable-skins2 --enable-qt4 \
        --enable-ncurses \
        --enable-aa --enable-caca \
        --enable-esd --enable-portaudio \
        --enable-jack --enable-xosd \
        --enable-galaktos --enable-goom \
        --enable-ggi \
        --disable-cddax --disable-vcdx

make

sudo make install

Ubuntu

apt-get build-dep vlc

apt-get install libtool automake autoconf ffmpeg