Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:07:37 +1100 From: Kubilay Kocak <koobs.freebsd@gmail.com> To: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.org, William Grzybowski <wg@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r331964 - head/multimedia/vlc Message-ID: <5270CC59.6080002@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <204A47D8-F1CE-4140-ABFD-5E3A47FE6660@FreeBSD.org> References: <201310291555.r9TFtUPK027583@svn.freebsd.org> <20131030055710.GA14262@FreeBSD.org> <204A47D8-F1CE-4140-ABFD-5E3A47FE6660@FreeBSD.org>
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On 30/10/2013 7:53 PM, David Chisnall wrote: > On 30 Oct 2013, at 05:57, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 03:55:30PM +0000, William Grzybowski wrote: >>> New Revision: 331964 >>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/331964 >>> >>> - Disable OSS (it is broken in vlc 2.1.0 and FreeBSD #9760) >>> - Use pulse audio >> >> This makes VLC officially broken on FreeBSD. While I only use VLC on >> non-Unix platform (mplayer satifies my needs better elsewhere), it is >> sad to see another popular player to go. :( >> >> Are there changes to fix OSS problems (and move PA back to OPTIONS, >> where it belongs)? > > I agree, this seems very unfortunate. OSS works out of the box and provides a trivial API that does everything that VLC needs with low latency. PulesAudio... doesn't. What was broken with OSS upstream? > > David > I think this is more a consequence of the lack of a FreeBSD environment for upstream to keep an eye on more than anything. wg and I did briefly talk about it with the crew @ #videolan/FreeNode IRC last night, so they're *basically* aware, and I have been working with them over the past month or too since picking up multimedia/x264, which has resulted in an 2 official x264 FreeBSD buildbots. In the meantime, perhaps a revert to 2.0.x or a vlc20/vlc21 port distinction might prove valuable while we work with upstream to narrow down exactly what's going on. Either way, getting in front of the 8-ball proactively with upstream is a far cry better than issues that come as a surprise like this. vlc is only gone if we let it go. Koobs
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