Build Vlc for Linux Using Docker Image

Get the source code.

$ git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc/vlc-3.0.git

Pull docker image for building

$ docker pull registry.videolan.org:5000/vlc-debian-stable

Build VLC using docker image.

• Start bash from docker with mounted vlc dir.

  $ sudo docker run --rm -it -v <vlc dir>:/vlc registry.videolan.org:5000/vlc-debian-stable /bin/bash

• bootstrap vlc

  from bash in docker image; run

  $ cd /vlc
  $ ./bootstrap

• Third party libraries/vlc plugins.

  $ cd contrib
  $ mkdir native # create a directory for building third party libraries.
  $ cd native    # go to the newly created directory.
  $ ../bootstrap # bootstrap the build for third party libraries.
  $ make fetch   # download tarballs for third party libraries.
  $ make         # build the libraries.
  

• Configure Vlc.

  $ cd /vlc
  $ ./configure
  $ make

You will find binary for vlc in bin directory. Now you can exit the bash prompt running from docker container and run

$ cd <vlc-source-dir>
$ bin/vlc