Xfmedia requires a recent version of xine-lib. Xfmedia was originally developed using xine-lib 1.0rc5, but a post-1.0 version is recommended.

Two utility libraries are required: libxfce4util and libxfcegui4, both available as part of the Xfce project. Version 4.2.0 or later is required.

The Xfmedia GUI relies on the GTK+ toolkit. Version 2.4 or greater is required.

Xfmedia also relies on an extension library, libexo. Version 0.2.x or 0.3.x is required.