Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:00:39 +0200 From: Oliver Heesakkers <freebsd@heesakkers.info> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT: vlc 2.0.3 - want to know where it works and where only partly Message-ID: <6721404.6TN6vjRsm3@pcoliver.heesakkers.info> In-Reply-To: <20120730191515.GA9678@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <20120730191515.GA9678@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
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Op ma 30 jul 2012 21:15:15 schreef Juergen Lock: > Hi! > > I had been testing vlc 2.0.x on and off on 8.2 with older ports > and never could get native video to work (tho audio-only files and > videos via SDL work), and now I updated that port to 2.0.3 and > thought why not test it on the laptop that I recently updated to > 9.1 beta and more up to date ports, and guess what, there it works > just fine!! :) > > So now before we can update the port (and at least for a while > keep the old port as vlc-legacy; I already talked with the maintainer > who has little time atm) we need to know what to note in the 2.x > port about when ppl should expect it to work, so testers on various > FreeBSD versions are needed. First off my compliments for picking this up. I for one rather not see a vlc-legacy port. Upstream supports just the one version and so should we. You've marked liveMedia broken, but the update for that is basically done, see its commit history: http://www.freshports.org/net/liveMedia/ People using multimedia/phonon-vlc should include this in their testing, for this purpose the ABI version number for VLC has to be removed from multimedia/phonon-vlc/Makefile I suggest you distribute a patch here that handles all three simultaneously, after that has been tested on as many versions and archs as possible a comprehensive UPDATING message can be constructed and where necessary VLC can be marked broken, but I suspect there will not be much breakage (Wether or not you require SDL for video output can be noted in UPDATING). I used your patch on my 8.3-RELEASE-p3 amd64 headless box where VLC is used to record Axis securityfeeds, so no testing of output there, but what needs to work, works. My 9.0-RELEASE-p3 amd64 desktop (with nVidia graphics) has been running VLC 2 problem free for six months now, ever since that was requested of me when filing a bug + patch @ videolan. It's set for native video output, I can't remember having used another setting. I haven't (yet) used your patch on this box, as it was already running 2.0.3. Phonon-vlc also works on this box. All ports are up-to-date for both mentioned boxes.
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