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VLC media player source code

Tarballs

Latest VLC source code tarball (2.0.6):

Warning: The following package is outdated, you may encounter important bugs or security holes.
You may want to download source code and compile the software yourself.

VLC source code tar.xz source package (17.8MiB)

Required libraries:

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Older versions

Older versions can be found by browsing our FTP archive

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.