VLC 3 - media player (Xenial & newer)

Backport of VLC 3.0.17.4 (and required dependencies) for Xenial & newer.

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UPDATE (24 May 2022): Anyone with no audio since the recent VLC update at this PPA (package versions 3.0.17.4-2~XX.04.sav0) should be able to fix this issue by removing "vlc-plugin-pipewire" such as with this command:

  sudo apt-get purge vlc-plugin-pipewire

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/savos/+bug/1974089 for more details on bug.

This new vlc-plugin-pipewire package will now be on all those systems that updated to the mentioned VLC package version, if "Recommends" packages are auto-installed. This seems to be Focal and newer series (same as Debian), but seems to not be so with default installations of earlier series (ie. Bionic). An update to VLC here today has demoted the vlc-plugin-pipewire package from Recommends to Suggests to fix the issue. *** END UPDATE ***

Note about full screen issues: Various users have experienced bugs with MATE (and other desktop environments) on VLC > 3.0.3 in full screen mode (eg. unusable controls or MATE panel appearing over top of the video). You can try the patched VLC (revert one line of code in one commit) if having such issues: https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/vlc3-mate

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                    VLC - media player (Xenial & newer)
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dav1d (1.0.0), fluidsynth (2.2.7), glslang (11.10.0+1.3.216.0), gpac (2.0.0), libdvdnav (6.1.1), libdvdread (6.1.3), libebml (1.4.2), liblivemedia (2022.02.07), libmatroska (1.6.3), libplacebo (4.203.0~git20220425), libtorrent-rasterbar (2.0.6 Jammy / 1.2.15 Focal / 1.2.11 final Py 2.7 version), lirc (0.10.1 bugfix), protobuf (3.12.4), shaderc (2022.1), sndio (1.8.1), spirv-tools (2022.3+1.3.216.0), srt (1.4.4), taglib (1.12), vlc (3.0.17.4), vlc-plugin-bittorrent (2.14), vlc-plugin-pipewire (3), vulkan-{loader,tools} (1.3.216.0), x264 (0.164.3094 = libx264-164), x265 (3.5 = libx265-199)

Xenial & Bionic: libgcrypt20, libgpg-error, libmicrodns (0.1.0), libnfs (4.0.0), libspatialaudio (0.3.0+git20180730)

Xenial only: libepoxy (1.4.3)

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*** Install ***

VLC here requires FFmpeg >= 4.4 so do these steps to successfully install:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/vlc3
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install vlc

For _all_ latest dependencies (beyond minimum needed for VLC and FFmpeg):

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/graphics
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/multimedia
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/vlc3
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
  sudo apt-get install vlc

*** Build ***

This PPA has build dependencies on:

  ppa:savoury1/build-tools
  ppa:savoury1/backports
  ppa:savoury1/graphics
  ppa:savoury1/multimedia
  ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4

Additionally, for Xenial only:

  ppa:savoury1/python

Note: With backported protobuf >= 3 chromecast support builds on Xenial.

*** Credits ***

- Creators of VLC: Rémi Denis-Courmont and the entire VLC team
  https://www.videolan.org/videolan/team/

- Package code: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vlc