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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.<br>
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] 
| BSD with Copyright attribution
| 
|-
! 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> 
| 
|-
! 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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