Re: Compile VLC from source enabling with live555 RTSP streaming support

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Jaikumar Sharma wrote: 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Our product is using VLC with RTSP support with live555 (http://www.live555.com/) - which was disabled in Debian because of licensing changes by live555.
> 
> I want compile VLC with live555 RTSP streaming support, most of the tutorials or hints I found resulted-in to be outdated. I'm sure somebody would have done it already, just want to enable RTSP support , i'm able to compile and build debian packages out of it but RTSP streaming is not working.
> Can somebody point me to hints to configuration options to be enabled before compilation of sources? I'm using Debian stable.
> 
> Any hints will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.


In general, you can reproduce a Debian package by making sure
you have a deb-src line in your /etc/apt/sources.list like this:

deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free


Then you want to:

# apt update
# apt install build-essential
# apt-get source vlc vlc-bin

from man apt-get:

       source
           source causes apt-get to fetch source packages. APT will examine the available packages to decide
           which source package to fetch. It will then find and download into the current directory the newest
           available version of that source package while respecting the default release, set with the option
           APT::Default-Release, the -t option or per package with the pkg/release syntax, if possible.

After that, you might want to talk to the VLC developer's list
for VLC-specific issues.

-dsr-