VLC media player source code

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Tarballs

Latest VLC source code tarball (3.0.20):

VLC source code tar.xz source package

Required libraries:

Contrib libraries tarballs

Older versions

Older versions can be found by browsing our archives

Git

More information about the Git source code repository is available on the developer's website.

How to compile?

Please have a look at VLC's sub-page on the developers website. There are detailed descriptions for most systems, supported by VLC. If something is not mentioned there, searching the forum is worth a try.

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