Building VLMC

Building VLMC from source

This wiki page has information on building VideoLAN Movie Creator, VLMC from source. VLMC (VideoLAN Movie Creator) is a free video editing software, offering features to realize semi-professional quality movies, but with the aim to stays simple and user-friendly.

Resources

VLMC requires Qt(4.5+), C++ compiler and libVLC.

To install Qt, refer: http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads To install libVLC, you are required to compile VLC

To get the current source of VLC player, refer: http://wiki.videolan.org/GetTheSource

For information on using Git, refer: http://wiki.videolan.org/Git For Information on generic compilation of VLC, refer: http://wiki.videolan.org/Compile_VLC

In case you are interested in mailing list, goto: http://vlmc.org/mailman/listinfo

We have two VLMC mailing lists:

   * vlmc-announce: Official announcements (release, events, ...)
   * vlmc-devel: Developers discussions

Getting the source

You can fetch the current working tree using Git: git clone git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git

Compiling VLMC

Following is the cleanest way of compiling VLMC (commands for *nix OS)

1. Download source code of VLC and VLMC as described in http://wiki.videolan.org/GetTheSource git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git git clone git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git

2. Compile and install libVLC, libVLC is required by VLMC, for example: cd path_to_vlc_src ./configure make sudo make install

3. Compile VLMC: qmake && make

Now, to run VLMC: ./vlmc

Alternate way to compile VLC

The page was last updated on June 22, 2009