> It will remove vlc too since x264 is a dependency. > do a "apt-get build-dep vlc" to install vlc build dependencies, then > remove x264 which will remove vlc, then rebuild vlc using 1.1 git > source or the ubuntu source package. Howto: Build the development version of vlc under Ubuntu http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1398119