View source for Contrib Status

This page lists the libraries needed to have a fully featured {{VLC}}. <br />
The additional information in the table refers to the VLC contrib build system (located in extras/contrib). These versions are against the trunk version.

For information on how to compile {{VLC}} on your platform see the [[Developers_Corner|Build VLC media player]] box on the Developer Corner's page. 

=== Codecs  ===

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|+ '''Contrib Status''' 
|-
! Contrib lib 
! VLC version 
! Most recent version 
! Compile 
! Win32 
! BeOS 
! MacOSX 
! *Nix 
! WinCE 
! Where&nbsp;? 
! License 
! Comment
|-
! libvorbis 
| 1.2.3 
| 1.2.3 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.xiph.org/downloads/ Xiph.org] 
| BSD-like<br> 
| <br>
|-
! libogg 
| 1.1.4 
| 1.1.4 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| [http://www.xiph.org/downloads/ Xiph.org] 
| BSD-like<br> 
| <br>
|-
! libtheora 
| 1.1.0 
| 1.1.0 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.xiph.org/downloads/ Xiph.org] 
| BSD-like<br> 
| <br>
|-
! speex 
| 1.2rc1 
| 1.2rc1 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.speex.org/downloads/ Speex.org] 
| BSD-like<br> 
| <br>
|-
! flac 
| 1.2.1 
| 1.2.1 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://flac.sourceforge.net/ flac.sf] 
| BSD-like<br> 
| <br>
|-
! x264 
| svn 
| svn 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| SVN 
| GPLv2+<br> 
| <br>
|-
! a52 
| 0.7.4 
| 0.7.4 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://liba52.sf.net liba52.sf] 
| GPLv2+<br> 
| Not likely to be updated
|-
! MPEG2DEC 
| 0.5.1 
| 0.5.1 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| [http://libmpeg2.sf.net libmpeg2.sf] 
| GPLv2+<br> 
| Not likely to be updated
|-
! faad2 
| 2.7 
| 2.7 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.audiocoding.com/faad2.html audiocoding] 
| GPLv2+<br> 
| <br>
|-
! faac 
| 1.28 
| 1.28 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.audiocoding.com/faac.html audiocoding] 
| LGPL for modifications<br> 
| <br>
|-
! lame 
| 3.98.2 
| 3.98.2 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=290&package_id=309 sf.net] 
| GPLv2+<br> 
| <br>
|-
! FFmpeg 
| SVN 
| SVN 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| SVN 
| GPLv2/3/LGPL<br> 
| <br>
|-
! libmad 
| 0.15.1b 
| 0.15.1b 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12349&package_id=86999 SF] 
| GPLv2+<br> 
| <br>
|-
! dirac 
| 1.0.2 
| 1.0.2 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://dirac.sourceforge.net dirac.sf] 
| GPLv2/LGPL 2.1/MIT<br> 
| <br>
|-
! liboil 
| 0.3.16 
| 0.3.16 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://liboil.freedesktop.org/download/ liboil.fdesktop] 
| Two-Clause BSD 
| <br>
|-
! schroedinger 
| 1.0.8 
| 1.0.8 
| {{untested}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.diracvideo.org/download/schroedinger/ diracvideo.org] 
| GPLv2/LGPL 2.1/MIT<br> 
| <br>
|-
! libdca 
| SVN 
| SVN 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| SVN 
| GPLv2+<br> 
| <br>
|-
! twolame 
| 0.3.12 
| 0.3.12 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.twolame.org/ twolame.org] 
| LGPL 2.1+<br> 
| <br>
|-
! libmpcdec 
| 1.2.6 
| 1.2.6 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=src musepack] 
| BSD<br> 
| <br>
|-
! Tremor 
| SVN 
| SVN 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| SVN 
| BSD-like<br> 
| <br>
|-
! libass<br> 
| Git<br> 
| Git<br> 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| Git<br> 
| GPLv2+<br> 
| <br>
|}

=== Muxers  ===

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|+ '''Contrib Status''' 
|-
! Contrib lib 
! VLC version 
! Most recent version 
! Compile 
! Win32 
! BeOS 
! MacOSX 
! *Nix 
! WinCE 
! Where 
! License<br>
! Comment
|-
! libebml 
| 0.7.8 
| 0.7.8 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.matroska.org/downloads/linux.html matroska.org] 
| LGPLv2.1<br>
| <br>
|-
! libmatroska 
| 0.8.1 
| 0.8.1 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.matroska.org/downloads/linux.html matroska.org] 
| LGPLv2.1<br>
| <br>
|-
! libdvbpsi 
| 0.1.6 
| 0.1.6 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvbpsi.html libdvbpsi] 
| GPLv2+<br>
| <br>
|}

=== Access  ===

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|+ '''Contrib Status''' 
|-
! Contrib lib 
! VLC version 
! Most recent version 
! Compile 
! Win32 
! BeOS 
! MacOSX 
! *Nix 
! WinCE 
! Where&nbsp;? 
! License 
! Comment
|-
! shout 
| 2.2.2 
| 2.2.2 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://downloads.us.xiph.org/releases/libshout/ xiph.org] 
| LGPLv2.1+ 
| 
|-
! libdvdcss 
| 1.2.9 
| 1.2.9 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/?C=N;O=D libdvdcss on v.o] 
| GPLv2+ 
| 
|-
! libdvdnav 
| CVS 
| CVS 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://dvd.sourceforge.net/ dvd.sf.net] 
| GPLv2+ 
| 
|-
! livedotcom 
| latest trunk 
| latest trunk 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.live555.com/mediaServer/#downloading live555] 
| LGPLv2.1+ 
| 
|-
! libcddb 
| 1.3.2 
| 1.3.2 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://libcddb.sourceforge.net/download.html libcddb.sf.net] 
| GPLv2+ 
| 
|-
! libcdio 
| 0.79 
| 0.81 
| {{Untested}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libcdio/?M=D gnu.org] 
| GPLv2+ 
| 
|-
! VCDimager 
| 0.7.23 
| 0.7.23 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.vcdimager.org/pub/vcdimager/vcdimager-0.7/ vcdimager] 
| GPLv2+ 
| 
|-
! libgpg-error 
| 1.7 
| 1.7 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/ gnupg.org] 
| LGPLv2.1+ 
| 
|-
! libgcrypt 
| 1.4.4 
| 1.4.4 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/ gnupg.org] 
| LGPLv2.1+ 
| 
|-
! gnuTLS 
| 2.8.3 
| 2.8.3 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/news.html gnu.org] 
| LGPLv2.1+(core)/GPLv3(extra)
| 
|-
! Opendaap 
| 0.4.0 
| 0.4.0 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| 
| 
| 
|-
! libxml2 
| 2.7.3 
| 2.7.3 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/ xmlsoft ftp] 
| Open Source 
| 
|}

=== Images  ===

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|+ '''Contrib Status''' 
|-
! Contrib lib 
! VLC version 
! Most recent version 
! Compile 
! Win32 
! BeOS 
! MacOSX 
! *Nix 
! WinCE 
! Where 
! License<br>
! Comment
|-
! libpng 
| 1.2.37 
| 1.2.40 
| {{untested}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html libpng.org] 
| <br>
|-
! libjpeg 
| 6b 
| 7 
| {{untested}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.ijg.org/files/ ijg.org] 
| <br>
| Rare updates
|-
! libtiff 
| 3.8.2 
| 3.9.1
| {{untested}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}}
| {{Needed}}
| {{unNeeded}}
| {{unNeeded}}
| [ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/ Main libtiff ftp] 
| <br>
| Rare updates
|-
! SDL 
| 1.2.13 
| 1.2.13 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}}
| {{Needed}}
| {{unNeeded}}
| {{unNeeded}}
| [http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php libsdl.org] 
| LGPLv2.1+<br>
| <br>
|-
! SDL_image 
| 1.2.7 
| 1.2.7 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}}
| {{Needed}}
| {{unNeeded}}
| {{unNeeded}}
| [http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/ libsdl.org] 
| LGPLv2.1+<br>
| <br>
|}

=== Tools  ===

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|+ '''Contrib Status''' 
|-
! Contrib lib 
! VLC version 
! Most recent version 
! Compile 
! Win32 
! BeOS 
! MacOSX 
! *Nix 
! WinCE 
! Where&nbsp;! 
! License<br> 
! Comment
|-
! Autoconf 
| 2.61 
| 2.63 
| {{untested}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/?M=D Gnu(slow)] 
| We don't care<br> 
| <br>
|-
! automake 
| 1.9.6 
| 1.10.1 
| {{untested}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/?M=D Gnu(slow)] 
| We don't care<br> 
| <br>
|-
! Pkgconfig 
| 0.20.0 
| 0.23 
| {{untested}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/ fd.org] 
| We don't care<br> 
| Don't update [http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/17486 Rev.17486]
|-
! Perl 
| 5.8.8 
| 5.10.0 
| {{untested}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.perl.org Perl] 
| We don't care<br> 
| <br>
|-
! libtool 
| 1.5.24 
| 1.5.26 
| {{untested}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ GNU-libtool] 
| We don't care<br> 
| Not tested yet and not usefull.
|-
! libiconv 
| 1.9.2 
| 1.12 
| {{untested}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| [http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/#downloading Gnu] 
| LGPLv2.0+<br> 
| Not tested yet and not usefull.
|-
! gettext 
| 0.16.1 
| 0.17 
| {{untested}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/ Gnu(slow)] 
| LGPLv2.1+<br> 
| <br>
|-
! freetype2 
| 2.3.9 
| 2.3.9 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://freetype.org/index2.html freetype.org] 
| FreeType+GPLv2+<br> 
| <br>
|-
! fribidi 
| 0.19.2 
| 0.19.2 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://fribidi.org/download/ fribidi.org] 
| LGPLv2.1+<br> 
| <br>
|-
! zlib 
| 1.2.3 
| 1.2.3 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.zlib.net/ zlib] 
| Free<br> 
| <br>
|}

''<br>''

=== Others  ===

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|+ '''Contrib Status''' 
|-
! Contrib lib 
! VLC version 
! Most recent version 
! Compile 
! Win32 
! BeOS 
! MacOSX 
! *Nix 
! WinCE 
! Comment
|-
! libid3tag 
| 0.15.1b 
| 0.15.1b 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| 
|-
! taglib 
| 1.5 
| 1.5 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html
|-
! goom2k4 
| 2k4-0 
| 2k4-0 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| 
|-
! libcaca 
| 0.9 
| 0.9 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| 0.99-beta2 is not a release version&nbsp;?
|-
! libmodplug 
| 0.8.7 
| 0.8.7
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| 
|-
! glib 
| 1.2.10 
| 1.2.10 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| v. gtk 1.2+
|-
! libidl 
| 0.6.8 
| 0.8.6 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| ''Not up-to-date, but We don't need about new versions'', since we don't really build it. Mirror has changed. It is now on gnome site
|-
! glib-win32 
| 19990228 ~ 1.2.0 
| 1.2.10 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| ''Not up-to-date, but We don't need about new versions'', since we don't really build it.
|-
! libidl-win32 
| 0.6.3 
| 0.8.6 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| ''Not up-to-date, but We don't need about new versions'', since we don't really build it. Mirror has changed. It is now on gnome site
|-
! gecko 
| 1.7.5 
| 1.8b1 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| ''Not up-to-date, but We don't need about new versions'', since we don't really build it.
|-
! gecko-win32 
| 1.8b1 
| 1.8b1 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| ''Not up-to-date, but We don't need about new versions'', since we don't really build it.
|-
! Qt 
| 4.3 
| 4.3 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| 
|-
! portaudio 
| 19 
| 19 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Yes}}<br> 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| Commented for Win32
|-
! Clinkcc 
| 171 
| 171 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| Commented for MacOSX
|-
! Upnp 
| 1.3.1 
| 1.3.1 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| Commented
|-
! expat 
| 2.0.0 
| 2.0.1 
| {{untested}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| Commented for MacOSX
|-
! yasm 
| 0.7.2 
| 0.8.0 
| {{untested}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| For Intel-based Macs
|-
! Contrib lib 
! VLC version 
! Most recent version 
! Compile 
! Win32 
! BeOS 
! MacOSX 
! *Nix 
! WinCE 
! Comment
|}

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