vlc

Description:Media player and framework with support for most multimedia files and streaming
Homepage:https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Location:Portage
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USE flags

  • a52 - Enable support for decoding ATSC A/52 streams used in DVD
  • alsa - Add support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
  • aom - Enable AV1 encoding/decoding support using media-libs/libaom
  • archive - Enable support for libarchive stream extractor
  • aribsub - Enable support for decoding ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
  • bidi - Enable bidirectional language support
  • bluray - Enable libbluray for Blu-ray disc support
  • cddb - Access cddb servers to retrieve and submit information about compact disks
  • chromaprint - Enable libchromaprint for Chromaprint based audio fingerprinter support
  • chromecast - Enable experimental support for Google Chromecast
  • cpu_flags_arm_neon - Use the NEON (ASIMD) instruction set
  • cpu_flags_ppc_altivec - Use the AltiVec/VMX instruction set
  • cpu_flags_x86_mmx - Use the MMX instruction set
  • cpu_flags_x86_sse - Use the SSE instruction set
  • dav1d - Enable support for media-libs/dav1d AV1 decoder
  • dbus - Enable dbus support for anything that needs it (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc)
  • dc1394 - Enable IIDC cameras support
  • debug - Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
  • directx - Enable Win32 DirectX, D3D11va and DxVA2 support
  • dts - Enable DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder support
  • dvbpsi - Enable support for Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts) via media-libs/libdvbpsi
  • dvd - Add support for DVDs
  • encode - Enable streaming-output support and videolan manager to control multiple streams from within one instance
  • faad - Enable AAC audio decoding library support via media-libs/faad2
  • fdk - Enable the Fraunhofer AAC codec library
  • ffmpeg - Enable ffmpeg/libav-based audio/video codec support
  • flac - Add support for FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec
  • fluidsynth - Enable Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
  • fontconfig - Support for configuring and customizing font access via media-libs/fontconfig
  • gcrypt - Enable cryptography support via libgcrypt
  • gme - Enable support for media-libs/game-music-emu for playing various video game music formats
  • gnome-keyring - Enable support for storing passwords via gnome-keyring
  • gstreamer - Enable GStreamer based decoding support (currently supports only video decoding)
  • gui - Enable support for a graphical user interface
  • ieee1394 - Enable FireWire/iLink IEEE1394 support (dv, camera, ...)
  • jack - Add support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit
  • jpeg - Add JPEG image support
  • kate - Adds support for Ogg Kate subtitles via libkate
  • keyring - Enable support for freedesktop.org Secret Service API password store
  • kms - Enable kernel mode setting video output plugin via x11-libs/libdrm
  • libass - SRT/SSA/ASS (SubRip / SubStation Alpha) subtitle support
  • libcaca - Add support for colored ASCII-art graphics
  • libnotify - Enable desktop notification support
  • libplacebo - Enable support for GPU accelerated video rendering with media-libs/libplacebo
  • libsamplerate - Build with support for converting sample rates using libsamplerate
  • libtar - Uses libtar instead of the built-in tar reader for reading custom skins
  • libtiger - Enable Ogg Kate subtitles rendering using libtiger
  • linsys - Enable support for Linux Linear Systems Ltd. SDI and HD-SDI input cards
  • lirc - Add support for lirc (Linux's Infra-Red Remote Control)
  • live - Enable live555 streaming media support (client support for rtsp)
  • loudness - Enable loudness normalisation according to the EBU R128 standard using media-libs/libebur128
  • lua - Enable Lua scripting support, needed for including support for Jamendo (online music platform) and similar things
  • lua_single_target_lua5-1 - Build for Lua 5.1 only
  • macosx-notifications - Enable Mac OS X notifications module (formerly growl)
  • mad - Add support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend)
  • matroska - Enable matroska support using reference libraries (fallback on other existing matroska support if disabled, i.e., matroska enabled FFmpeg)
  • modplug - Add libmodplug support for playing SoundTracker-style music files
  • mp3 - Add support for reading mp3 files
  • mpeg - Add libmpeg2 support for mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 video streams
  • mtp - Enable support for Media Transfer Protocol
  • musepack - Enable support for the musepack audio codec
  • ncurses - Add ncurses support (console display library)
  • nfs - Enable support for nfs protocol via net-fs/libnfs
  • ogg - Add support for the Ogg container format (commonly used by Vorbis, Theora and flac)
  • omxil - Enable OpenMAX Integration Layer codec module
  • optimisememory - Enable optimisation for memory rather than performance
  • opus - Enable Opus audio codec support
  • png - Add support for libpng (PNG images)
  • projectm - Enable the projectM visualization plugin
  • pulseaudio - Add sound server support via media-libs/libpulse (may be PulseAudio or PipeWire)
  • rdp - Enables RDP/Remote Desktop support
  • run-as-root - Allows vlc to start for root. Don't enable this unless you have a very specific (e.g. embedded) need for it!
  • samba - Add support for SAMBA (Windows File and Printer sharing)
  • sdl-image - Enable sdl image video decoder (depends on sdl)
  • sftp - Enable libssh2 to support SFTP file transfer
  • shout - Enable libshout output
  • sid - Adds support for playing C64 SID files through media-libs/libsidplay:2
  • skins - Enable support for the skins2 interface
  • soxr - Enable SoX Resampler support via media-libs/soxr
  • speex - Add support for the speex audio codec (used for speech)
  • srt - Enable support for Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) via net-libs/srt
  • ssl - Add support for SSL/TLS connections (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer Security)
  • svg - Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
  • taglib - Enable tagging support with taglib
  • test - Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
  • theora - Add support for the Theora Video Compression Codec
  • tremor - Enable tremor, a fixed-point version of the Ogg Vorbis decoder
  • truetype - Add support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts
  • twolame - Enable twolame support (MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoder)
  • udev - Enable virtual/udev integration (device discovery, power and storage device support, etc)
  • upnp - Enable support for the Intel SDK stack based UPnP discovery module instead of CyberLink
  • v4l - Enable support for video4linux (using linux-headers or userspace libv4l libraries)
  • vaapi - Enable Video Acceleration API for hardware decoding
  • vdpau - Enable the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix acceleration interface
  • vnc - Enable VNC (remote desktop viewer) support
  • vpx - Enable the decoder(s) from the WebM VP8 / VP9 Codec SDK
  • wayland - Enable dev-libs/wayland backend
  • X - Enable support for e.g. fullscreen mode via X and the X C-language binding. It does not build a graphical interface
  • x264 - Enable h264 encoding using x264
  • x265 - Support X265 Encoder
  • xml - Add support for XML files
  • zeroconf - Enable support for zero-configuration networking via avahi
  • zvbi - Enable support for teletext subtitles via the zvbi library

Security Advisory

Date Severity Title
about 3 years normal VLC: Buffer overflow
almost 4 years normal VLC: Buffer overflow
over 4 years normal VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
over 4 years normal VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
over 6 years normal VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
about 7 years normal VLC: Buffer overflow
about 8 years normal VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
over 9 years normal VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
over 15 years normal VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
over 15 years normal VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
over 15 years normal VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
almost 16 years normal VLC: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
about 16 years high VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
over 16 years normal VLC media player: Format string vulnerabilities
about 17 years normal VLC media player: Format string vulnerability

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