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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 
| 1.3.2 
| 1.3.2 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.xiph.org/downloads/ Xiph.org] 
| BSD-like<br> 
| <br>
|-
! libogg 
| 1.2.1 
| 1.2.1 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| [http://www.xiph.org/downloads/ Xiph.org] 
| BSD-like<br> 
| <br>
|-
! libtheora 
| 
1.1.1 

| 1.1.1 
| {{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.xiph.org/downloads/ Xiph.org] 
| BSD-like<br> 
| <br>
|-
! flac 
| 1.2.1 
| 1.2.1 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/flac/files/flac-src/ Flac] 
| 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 
| 3.98.4 
| 3.98.4 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=290&package_id=309 sf.net] 
| LGPLv2+<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 
| 1.0.10 
| 1.0.10 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{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> 
| 0.9.11<br> 
| 0.9.11<br> 
| {{Up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://code.google.com/p/libass/downloads/list Google Code]<br> 
| Simplified 2-clause BSD license<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 
| 1.0.0 
| 1.0.0 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.matroska.org/downloads/linux.html matroska.org] 
| LGPLv2.1+<br> 
| <br>
|-
! libmatroska 
| 1.0.0 
| 1.0.0 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.matroska.org/downloads/linux.html matroska.org] 
| LGPLv2.1+<br> 
| <br>
|-
! libdvbpsi 
| 0.1.7 
| 0.1.7 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| [http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvbpsi.html libdvbpsi] 
| GPLv2+, getting relicensed into LGPL
| <br>
|-
! libmodplug 
| 0.8.8.1 
| 0.8.8.1 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://modplug-xmms.sourceforge.net/ modplug sur sf.net] 
| Public domain
|}

=== 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}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| [http://www.live555.com/mediaServer/#downloading live555] 
| LGPLv2.1+ 
| 
|-
! libcddb 
| 1.3.2 
| 1.3.2 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://libcddb.sourceforge.net/download.html libcddb.sf.net] 
| GPLv2+ 
| 
|-
! libcdio 
| 0.80 
| 0.82 
| {{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 
| 1.10 
| {{No}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/ gnupg.org] 
| LGPLv2.1+ 
| DO NOT update, until Windows version is fixed
|-
! libgcrypt 
| 1.4.6 
| 1.4.6 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/ gnupg.org] 
| LGPLv2.1+ 
| 
|-
! gnuTLS 
| 2.10.3 
| 2.10.3 
| {{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 
| 2.7.7 
| 2.7.7 
| {{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 
| 1.4.4 
| 1.4.4 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html libpng.org] 
| Very open license, approaching BSD 2-clause
|-
! libjpeg 
| 8a 
| 8a 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.ijg.org/files/ ijg.org] 
| 1. We don't promise that this software works.                                                                       
2. You can use this software for whatever you want.  You don't have to pay us.
3. You may not pretend that you wrote this software.  If you use it in a program, you must acknowledge somewhere in your documentation that you've used the IJG code.
| 
|-
! libtiff 
| 3.9.4 
| 3.9.4 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/ Main libtiff ftp] 
| <br> 
| 
|-
! SDL 
| 1.2.14 
| 1.2.14 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php libsdl.org] 
| LGPLv2.1+<br> 
| <br>
|-
! SDL_image 
| 1.2.10 
| 1.2.10 
| {{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 
| 2.63 
| 2.63 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/?M=D Gnu(slow)] 
| We don't care<br> 
| <br>
|-
! automake 
| 1.11 
| 1.11 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/?M=D Gnu(slow)] 
| We don't care<br> 
| <br>
|-
! Pkgconfig 
| 0.23 
| 0.23 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/ fd.org] 
| We don't care<br> 
| 
|-
! libtool 
| 2.2.10 
| 2.2.10 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ GNU-libtool] 
| We don't care<br> 
| <br>
|-
! libiconv 
| 1.13.1 
| 1.13.1 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| [http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/#downloading Gnu] 
| LGPLv2.0+<br> 
| Not tested yet and not usefull.
|-
! gettext 
| 0.18 
| 0.18 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| [http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/ Gnu(slow)] 
| LGPLv2.1+<br> 
| <br>
|-
! freetype2 
| 2.3.12 
| 2.3.12 
| {{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 
| 1.2.5 
| 1.2.5 
| {{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
|-
! taglib 
| 1.6.3 
| 1.6.3 
| {{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}} 
| <br>
|-
! libcaca 
| 0.99-beta16 
| 0.99-beta16 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| <br>
|-
! Qt 
| 4.3 
| 4.6 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| <br>
|-
! portaudio 
| 19 
| 19 
| {{up-to-date}} 
| {{Yes}}<br> 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| Commented for Win32
|-
! Upnp 
| 1.6.6 
| 1.6.6 
| {{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 
| 1.1.0 
| 1.1.0 
| {{untested}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{Needed}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| {{unNeeded}} 
| For Intel-based Macs
|-
! Contrib lib 
! VLC version 
! Most recent version 
! Compile 
! Win32 
! BeOS 
! MacOSX 
! *Nix 
! WinCE 
! Comment
|}

=== Single command installation in Ubuntu  ===

 $ sudo apt-get -y install libvorbis-dev libogg-dev libtheora-dev speex libspeex-dev flac libflac-dev \
   x264 libx264-dev a52-0.7.4 liba52-0.7.4-dev mpeg2dec libmpeg2-4-dev faad libfaad-dev faac libfaac-dev \
   lame libmp3lame-dev ffmpeg libavdevice-dev libmad0 libmad0-dev dirac libdirac-dev liboil-dev libschroedinger-dev \
   libdca-dev twolame libtwolame-dev libmpcdec-dev libvorbisidec1 libvorbisidec-dev libass-dev libass4 libebml2 \
   libebml-dev libmatroska2 libmatroska-dev libdvbpsi6 libdvbpsi-dev libmodplug1 libmodplug-dev libshout3 libshout3-dev \
   libdvdread4 libdvdnav4 libdvdnav-dev livemedia-utils liblivemedia-dev libcddb2 libcddb2-dev libcdio10 libcdio-dev \
   libcdio-utils vcdimager libvcdinfo0 libvcdinfo-dev libgpg-error0 libgpg-error-dev libgcrypt11 libgcrypt11-dev \
   gnutls-bin libgnutls26 libgnutls-dev libdap10 libdap-bin libdap-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libpng12-0 libpng12-dev \
   libjpeg8 libtiff4 libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-image1.2-dev libc-bin gettext libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev \
   libfribidi-dev libfribidi0 zlib1g zlib1g-dev libtag1-dev libcaca0 libcaca-dev caca-utils libqt4-core libqt4-dev \
   libportaudio2 libportaudio-dev libupnp-dev libupnp4 libupnp3 libexpat1 libexpat1-dev yasm libxcb-xv0 libxcb-xv0-dev \
   libx11-xcb1 libx11-xcb-dev

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