Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) from git

Here is the full howto
The only addition i can make : vlc and ffmpeg switched to git
so to extract the x264 library you would need these command lines

$ cd extras
$ git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
$ git clone git://git.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/
$ cd ffmpeg
$ git clone git://git.mplayerhq.hu/libswscale/