VLC 3 - media player (Xenial & newer)

New VLC 3.0.19 pre-release (needs ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg) for Xenial & newer.

*** VLC builds here depend on the private PPA for successful install! ***

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                    VLC - media player (Xenial & newer)
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dav1d (1.2.1), fluidsynth (2.3.3), gpac (2.0.0), libdvdnav (6.1.1), libdvdread (6.1.3), libebml (1.4.4), libgcrypt20 (1.10.2), libmatroska (1.7.1), libtorrent-rasterbar (2.0.9 Jammy / 1.2.15 Focal / 1.2.11 final Py 2.7 version), lirc (0.10.1 bugfix), protobuf (3.12.4), pupnp (1.14.18), sndio (1.9.0), srt (1.5.3), taglib (1.13.1), vlc (3.0.19~git20230907 pre-release), vlc-plugin-bittorrent (2.14), vlc-plugin-pipewire (3), x264 (0.164.3101 = libx264-164), x265 (3.5 = libx265-199)

Xenial & Bionic: libgpg-error, libmicrodns (0.1.0), libnfs (4.0.0), libspatialaudio (0.3.0+git20180730), pupnp-1.8 (1.8.4)

Xenial only: libepoxy (1.4.3)

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*** Install ***

VLC here requires both the public FFmpeg 4 PPA (ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4) and the private FFmpeg PPA (ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg). Anyone who has donated can contact me to request access to the private PPA. After being given access to the new private PPA, do the following steps to successfully install:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/vlc3
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install vlc

For _all_ latest dependencies (beyond minimum needed for VLC and FFmpeg):

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/graphics
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/multimedia
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/vlc3
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
  sudo apt-get install vlc

Note about full screen issues: A long standing bug [1] first reported over three years ago (July 2019) related to VLC > 3.0.3 for users of particular desktop environments has now been fixed at last in latest VLC 3.0.18 with some changes [2] to how VLC handles the playback bar in fullsreen mode! So the other VLC 3 PPA (ppa:savoury1/vlc3-mate) is now effectively redundant.

[1] https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/22563
[2] https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/d68b590f

UPDATE (24 May 2022): Anyone with no audio since the recent VLC update at this PPA (package versions 3.0.17.4-2~XX.04.sav0) should be able to fix this issue by removing "vlc-plugin-pipewire" such as with this command:

  sudo apt-get purge vlc-plugin-pipewire

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/SavOS/+bug/1974089 for more details on bug.

This new vlc-plugin-pipewire package will now be on all those systems that updated to the mentioned VLC package version, if "Recommends" packages are auto-installed. This seems to be Focal and newer series (same as Debian), but seems to not be so with default installations of earlier series (ie. Bionic). An update to VLC here today has demoted the vlc-plugin-pipewire package from Recommends to Suggests to fix the issue. *** END UPDATE ***

*** Build ***

This PPA has build dependencies on:

  ppa:savoury1/build-tools
  ppa:savoury1/backports
  ppa:savoury1/python
  ppa:savoury1/graphics
  ppa:savoury1/multimedia
  ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4

Additionally, for Xenial only:

  ppa:savoury1/toolchain

Note: With backported protobuf >= 3 chromecast support builds on Xenial.

*** Credits ***

- Creators of VLC: Rémi Denis-Courmont and the entire VLC team
  https://www.videolan.org/videolan/team/

- Package code: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc