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Details of media-video/vlc:
Description: Media player and framework with support for most multimedia files and streaming
Homepage: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
available versions:
| releases | alpha | amd64 | arm | hppa | ia64 | mips | ppc | ppc64 | ppc macos | s390 | sh | sparc | x86 | USE-Flags | dependencies | ebuild warnings |
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| vlc-9999 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | alsa
aom
archive
aribsub
bidi
bluray
chromaprint
chromecast
dav1d
dbus
dc1394
debug
directx
+dvbpsi
dvd
+encode
faad
fdk
+ffmpeg
flac
fluidsynth
fontconfig
+gcrypt
gme
keyring
gstreamer
+gui
ieee1394
jack
jpeg
kate
libass
libcaca
libdrm
libnotify
libplacebo
+libsamplerate
libtiger
linsys
lirc
live
loudness
lua
mad
matroska
modplug
mp3
mtp
ncurses
nfs
ogg
omxil
optimisememory
opus
png
projectm
pulseaudio
run-as-root
samba
selinux
sftp
shout
sid
skins
soxr
speex
srt
ssl
svg
taglib
theora
tremor
truetype
twolame
udev
upnp
vaapi
v4l
vdpau
vnc
vpx
wayland
+X
x264
x265
xml
zeroconf
zvbi
cpu_flags_arm_neon
cpu_flags_ppc_altivec
cpu_flags_x86_sse
| show | We cannot run vlc-cache-gen (most likely ROOT != /)
Please run ${EPREFIX}/usr/libexec/vlc/vlc-cache-gen manually
If you do not do it, vlc will take a long time to load.
| | vlc-4.0.0_pre20260625 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | alsa
aom
archive
aribsub
bidi
bluray
chromaprint
chromecast
dav1d
dbus
dc1394
debug
directx
+dvbpsi
dvd
+encode
faad
fdk
+ffmpeg
flac
fluidsynth
fontconfig
+gcrypt
gme
keyring
gstreamer
+gui
ieee1394
jack
jpeg
kate
libass
libcaca
libdrm
libnotify
libplacebo
+libsamplerate
libtiger
linsys
lirc
live
loudness
lua
mad
matroska
modplug
mp3
mtp
ncurses
nfs
ogg
omxil
optimisememory
opus
png
projectm
pulseaudio
run-as-root
samba
selinux
sftp
shout
sid
skins
soxr
speex
srt
ssl
svg
taglib
theora
tremor
truetype
twolame
udev
upnp
vaapi
v4l
vdpau
vnc
vpx
wayland
+X
x264
x265
xml
zeroconf
zvbi
cpu_flags_arm_neon
cpu_flags_ppc_altivec
cpu_flags_x86_sse
| show | We cannot run vlc-cache-gen (most likely ROOT != /)
Please run ${EPREFIX}/usr/libexec/vlc/vlc-cache-gen manually
If you do not do it, vlc will take a long time to load.
Starting VLC GUI is only supported by using its desktop file.
Manually calling vlc from command line is known to break in Wayland sessions.
| | vlc-3.0.9999 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | alsa
aom
archive
aribsub
bidi
bluray
chromaprint
chromecast
dav1d
dbus
dc1394
debug
directx
+dvbpsi
dvd
+encode
faad
fdk
+ffmpeg
flac
fluidsynth
fontconfig
+gcrypt
gme
keyring
gstreamer
ieee1394
jack
jpeg
kate
libass
libcaca
libnotify
+libsamplerate
libtiger
linsys
lirc
live
lua
mad
matroska
modplug
mp3
mtp
musepack
ncurses
nfs
ogg
omxil
optimisememory
opus
png
projectm
pulseaudio
run-as-root
samba
selinux
sftp
shout
sid
soxr
speex
srt
ssl
svg
taglib
theora
tremor
truetype
twolame
udev
upnp
vaapi
v4l
vdpau
vnc
vpx
wayland
+X
x264
x265
xml
zeroconf
zvbi
cpu_flags_arm_neon
cpu_flags_ppc_altivec
cpu_flags_x86_mmx
cpu_flags_x86_sse
| show | Warning: User interface no longer available in VLC 3.x (Qt5 is dead).
media-video/vlc-4 is available in ~arch with Qt6-based GUI instead.
We cannot run vlc-cache-gen (most likely ROOT != /)
Please run ${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)/vlc/vlc-cache-gen manually
If you do not do it, vlc will take a long time to load.
| | vlc-3.0.23-r1 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | alsa
aom
archive
aribsub
bidi
bluray
chromaprint
chromecast
dav1d
dbus
dc1394
debug
directx
+dvbpsi
dvd
+encode
faad
fdk
+ffmpeg
flac
fluidsynth
fontconfig
+gcrypt
gme
keyring
gstreamer
ieee1394
jack
jpeg
kate
libass
libcaca
libnotify
+libsamplerate
libtiger
linsys
lirc
live
lua
macosx-notifications
mad
matroska
modplug
mp3
mtp
musepack
ncurses
nfs
ogg
omxil
optimisememory
opus
png
projectm
pulseaudio
run-as-root
samba
selinux
sftp
shout
sid
soxr
speex
srt
ssl
svg
taglib
theora
tremor
truetype
twolame
udev
upnp
vaapi
v4l
vdpau
vnc
vpx
wayland
+X
x264
x265
xml
zeroconf
zvbi
cpu_flags_arm_neon
cpu_flags_ppc_altivec
cpu_flags_x86_mmx
cpu_flags_x86_sse
| show | Warning: User interface no longer available in VLC 3.x (Qt5 is dead).
media-video/vlc-4 is available in ~arch with Qt6-based GUI instead.
We cannot run vlc-cache-gen (most likely ROOT != /)
Please run ${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)/vlc/vlc-cache-gen manually
If you do not do it, vlc will take a long time to load.
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Legend: + stable~ testing- not availablesome ebuild warning depend on specific use-flags or architectures, all ebuild-warnings are shown. Known bugs:
| bug ID | component | assigned to | status | description | last change |
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| 281522 | Vulnerabilities | security | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc Stack-based buffer overflows via smb:// URLs | 2012-09-19 13:03:24 |
| 370587 | Applications | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc-1.1.9: vlc won't play files from ssh folder connected through gnome "Places" menu | 2012-09-19 13:08:20 |
| 384313 | Applications | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc vlc-cache-gen Segmentation fault on hardened system | 2012-09-19 13:08:49 |
| 385109 | Applications | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc-1.1.11 segfault error | 2012-09-19 13:08:57 |
| 393385 | Ebuilds | voyageur | UNCONFIRMED | media-libs/phonon-vlc-0.4.1 fails to compile with sys-devel/dragonegg-3.0 | 2012-09-28 13:05:51 |
| 405173 | Applications | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc-2.0.0 - /bin/sh: line 4: 2215 Segmentation fault ./vlc-cache-gen ../modules | 2012-09-19 13:09:28 |
| 406735 | Applications | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc-2.0.0 - erratic audio volume behaviour under Gnome3 | 2012-09-19 13:09:42 |
| 409327 | Applications | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc-2.0.1 crashes when playing dvd with menu (and dvd-CSS) | 2012-09-19 13:10:13 |
| 418181 | Ebuilds | base-system | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc 2.0.1 or newer should depend on gettext 0.18.1 or newer | 2012-09-19 13:10:58 |
| 419955 | Applications | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc-2.0.1 - src_test(): srtp-test-aes / srtp-test-recv: Libgcrypt warning: missing initi | 2012-09-19 13:11:08 |
| 426754 | Applications | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | Update to VLC 2.0.1 breaks MKVs | 2012-09-19 13:11:25 |
| 430960 | Applications | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc[vaapi] should depend on virtual/ffmpeg[vaapi] | 2013-01-26 17:56:56 |
| 435102 | Ebuilds | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc-9999 - 300_all_pic.patch fails to apply | 2012-09-18 20:17:27 |
| 437258 | Applications | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc-9999 - Failed Patch: 300_all_pic.patch ! | 2012-10-06 13:33:40 |
| 437632 | Ebuilds | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc: metadata.xml should be updated | 2012-10-08 20:15:56 |
| 438928 | Applications | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc should open directories in KDE | 2012-10-19 14:47:58 |
| 452048 | Applications | media-video | UNCONFIRMED | media-video/vlc-2.0.5 - drop dependency on smbclient use-flag for >=net-fs/samba-4.0.0 | 2013-02-18 07:03:10 |
| 457742 | Ebuilds | kde | UNCONFIRMED | media-libs/phonon-vlc-0.6.2 version bump request | 2013-02-15 19:14:23 |
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