VLC Compilation in Ubuntu.

• Git binary - for getting latest source code:
  sudo apt-get install git-core gitk git-gui
  
• Packages required for building/compiling:
  sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool libcppunit-dev python-dev libboost-all-dev
  Packages required for building vlc:
  sudo apt-get install libdbus-1-dev libmad0-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev liba52-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xv0-dev libx11-xcb-dev libqt4-dev libgcrypt-dev
  
• Get vlc source code from git and (Compile existing code)
  git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git
  cd vlc
  ./bootstrap
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-lua --disable-postproc --disable-glx --disable-skins2 --disable-nls
  make
  
• (install code)
  make install