If you want to play encrypted DVD’s please install the libdvdccss package separately. (only containing the versions that do not violate US patents).Anyway, I have the packages now, and made them available here: It always takes a while to compile new VLC packages not just because I build 8 of them (two Slackware releases, two architectures and restricted/unrestricted versions) but because updates to the internal support libraries have their own little challenges when you try to compile them.

The version 2.2.2 “ fixes numerous security issues, notably in the MP4, RealRtsp and Sparkle modules, but also important crashes for the MXF, ADPCM, Telextext, Skins and Qt modules. It also improves our codec support by adding new formats and providing faster decompression. More than 100 fixes for issues reported for 2.2.1” according to the release notes. Here it is finally: the next stable release.

It took ten months since the previous 2.2.1 release to produce a new egg. VLC development has been fairly invisible during the last year.

Vlc media player artifacts