VLCplayer-AppImage

Unofficial VLCplayer AppImage, VLC version (3.0.8) build from source.

Why?

AppImage is a format for distributing portable software on Linux without needing superuser permissions to install the application It tries also to allow Linux distribution-agnostic binary software deployment for application developers, also called Upstream packaging. Released first in 2004 under the name klik, it was continuously developed, then renamed in 2011 to PortableLinuxApps and later in 2013 to AppImage. wikipedia

Download

Download the AppImage from here.

How do I know it's safe?

As with most things you download from the Internet nowadays, you can't. But you can inspect the source code, improve it, decide for yourself whether to download the AppImage from the link above or create your own fork.

Compatibility

This AppImage has been tested on the following GNU / Linux distros.

• Debian 10 buster

• Fedora 31-1.9 Live x86_64

• OpenSUSE-Leap 15.1 KDE Live-x86_64

• Ubuntu xenial 16.04

• Ubuntu Bionic 18.04

• Ubuntu Disco 19.04

• Linuxmint 19.2 cinnamon-64bit

• Manjaro-xfce 18.1.0 stable-x86_64/18.1.2-linux53

• Mageia 7.1 Live-Plasma-x86_64

• MX-19

• KaOS-2019.10-x86_64

• Solus-4.0-Budgie

Playing DVDs and Blu-rays

• DVDs https://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html

• Blu-rays

• vlc AACS ( install libaacs on your distro ) https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/

• alternative install makemkv https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7009

Hardware video acceleration

• Arch wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration
• NVIDIA "vdpau" (mesa-vdpau-drivers;libvdpau)
• intel "vaapi"(libva )
• AMD "vaapi" and "vdpau"

features not activated

In the process of building Appimage it was not possible to integrate the following features

• chromecast:"protobuf" bug in gnutls-bin, preventing it from working correctly (during the build the binary was segfaulting)on Ubuntu xenial https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/18329
• crystalhd: unusble without firmware (#934242)
• d3d11va: Windows only
• decklink: not in Debian/Ubuntu xenial
• directx: Windows only
• dxva2: Windows only
• fluidlite: fluidsynth is enabled
• freerdp: scheduled for removal (#888323)
• goom: not in Debian/Ubuntu xenial
• gst-decode: not needed when having libavcodec
• libtar: security issue (#737534)
• macosx : MacOX only
• mfx: currently not supported on Linux
• opencv: developer plugin not required by end users
• projectm: broken
• schroedinger: removed from Debian/Ubuntu xenial (#845037)
• sparkle: MacOS X only
• telx: incompatible with zvbi
• vpx: not needed when having libavcodec
• vsxu: not in Debian/Ubuntu xenial
• wasapi: Windows only

Credits

This repo is mainly based on the work of icflorescu, Anupam Basak and darealshinji.

License

This repo is ISC-Licensed. Please refer to this page for VLC-related licensing stuff.