diff --git a/src/mod/formats/mod_vlc/README b/src/mod/formats/mod_vlc/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..16db672c59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/mod/formats/mod_vlc/README
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+You HAVE to have libvlc version 1.2 or later for mod_vlc to work. Both for the reason that 
+libvlc version 1.2 is LGPL and because there are new api's in 1.2 that are required.
+
+Building and usage:
+
+I used git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git to get the latest version of libvlc. 
+
+On debian I had to install:
+sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavutil-dev libavformat-dev liba52-0.7.4-dev
+
+My configure line for libvlc was: 
+./configure --prefix=/usr/ --disable-vlc --disable-lua --disable-mad --disable-swscale --disable-postproc --disable-xcb --disable-alsa
+
+The dialplan syntax I use are one of the following:
+<action application="playback" data="http://example.com/vlc.mp3"/>
+<action application="playback" data="vlc:///usr/local/freeswitch/sounds/vlc.mp3"/>
+
+Development:
+
+If you are having troubles, first change the value of vlc_args in mod_vlc.c. 
+
+The documentation for the libvlc library is located at:
+http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/doc/doxygen/html/group__libvlc.html
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diff --git a/src/mod/formats/mod_vlc/mod_vlc.c b/src/mod/formats/mod_vlc/mod_vlc.c
index 995b202b35..078152156a 100644
--- a/src/mod/formats/mod_vlc/mod_vlc.c
+++ b/src/mod/formats/mod_vlc/mod_vlc.c
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@
 
 static char *vlc_file_supported_formats[SWITCH_MAX_CODECS] = { 0 };
 
+/* Change valud to -vvv for vlc related debug. Be careful since vlc is at least as verbose as FS about logging */
+const char *vlc_args = "";
+
 libvlc_instance_t *inst;
 
 struct vlc_file_context {
@@ -172,7 +175,6 @@ static switch_status_t vlc_file_close(switch_file_handle_t *handle)
 SWITCH_MODULE_LOAD_FUNCTION(mod_vlc_load)
 {
 	switch_file_interface_t *file_interface;
-	const char *args = "-vvv";
 	
 	/* connect my internal structure to the blank pointer passed to me */
 	*module_interface = switch_loadable_module_create_module_interface(pool, modname);
@@ -188,7 +190,7 @@ SWITCH_MODULE_LOAD_FUNCTION(mod_vlc_load)
 	file_interface->file_read = vlc_file_read;
 
 	/* load the vlc engine. */
-	inst = libvlc_new(1, &args);
+	inst = libvlc_new(1, &vlc_args);
 
 	switch_log_printf(SWITCH_CHANNEL_LOG, SWITCH_LOG_DEBUG, "Initialized VLC instance\n");