VLC 3 - media player (Xenial & newer)

Backport of VLC 3.0.11 (and required dependencies) for Xenial and newer.

Note: Full screen issues with MATE (and other desktop environments) are known to occur for various users on all VLC > 3.0.3 versions. If you have issues in full screen mode (eg. unusable controls or the MATE panel appearing over the top of the video) then you can try this patched VLC version instead:

https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/vlc3-mate

*** Install ***

To install this version of VLC requires FFmpeg >= 4.2 so do these steps:

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

If you want all latest dependencies (not just minimum required for FFmpeg 4):

  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 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

Note: The ppa:savoury1/backports archive is not needed for installation, only to build the package for Xenial systems. Two source packages from that PPA are required for a Xenial build: gettext and protobuf. With the backported protobuf, chromecast support also builds successfully even for 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