Documentation:Uninstalling VLC

Windows

Go to your C Drive and look for program files--> videoLAN--> VLC and click on the Uninstall icon and follow the prompts to uninstall.

You can also Uninstall VLC from ADD/Remove Programs located in the Control Panel Search VLC media player and right click then select Uninstall/Change. Follow the prompts to finish the uninstallation.

Mac OS X

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.

BeOS

Delete the vlc-version directory. You can also remove the configuration file /boot/home/config/settings/vlcrc.

Debian GNU/Linux

Remove the packages that you installed:

# apt-get remove --purge vlc libdvdcss2

GNU/Linux Redhat, Mandrake and SuSE

Uninstall the RPM packages that you installed:

# rpm -e vlc-version vlc-mad-version wxvlc-version libdvdcss2-version libdvdpsi1-version

Ubuntu

Remove VLC Media Player by entering this command in the Terminal. please enter your password after this command.

#  sudo apt-get remove vlc 

Or you can also search VLC in the Ubuntu Software Center and click on Remove to uninstall it.

If you compiled VLC from sources

Go to the directory containing VLC sources and execute

# make uninstall

You can then remove the VLC sources.