VLC em Debian Lenny

dependências:

apt-get install libmatroska-dev liblivemedia-dev libfribidi-dev \
libfreetype6-dev gettext libslp-dev libdvbpsi5-dev libdvdread-dev \ 
libdvdnav-dev libdvdcss2-dev libsdl1.2-dev liba52-0.7.4-dev \ 
libmad0-dev libmpeg2-4-dev libavcodec-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev \
libflac-dev libspeex-dev libtheora-dev libfaad-dev libdv4-dev \ 
libxvidcore4-dev libdca-dev liblua5.1-0-dev libtag1-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev

wget -c http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.9.9/vlc-0.9.9.tar.bz2
tar jxvf vlc-0.9.9.tar.bz2
cd vlc-0.9.9
./configure

fonte: http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc.html