On Sunday 30 January 2011 12:51:05 Will Stephenson wrote:
Once this is accepted and building properly, should I submit vlc and phonon-backend-vlc to KDE:Extra? The developers say it is ready for prime time, so it should probably be moved out of playground at this point since it is no longer considered unstable.
So we know what kinds of complaints to expect, I'd like to see some documentation on the wiki of what it can and can't do * Codecs that work OOTB * Testing of the above with audio, video content in amarok, dragonplayer, bangarang * Playing standalone, playing at the same time as other Phonon apps, playing at the same time as known exclusive apps like Xine * Can our VLC build be used with externally provided codecs?
As that I am the packager of the VLC package in Playground, I guess that I am the one who could/should answer most of the above questions. At this moment I won't be happy and I will not accept the submission of VLC to KDE:Extra. The package does not belong there and the question is also if the package is legally ready or not. I have stripped VLC in the same way as that Xine has been stripped. This means that most of the codecs that have some legal issue are removed. Fortunately this leaves a VLC package that can be used to build applications against. As that VLC has build-in codecs, it is impossible to have a external package that provides codecs. All VLC packages should be replaced by either the ones from Packman or from Videolan (VLC). These provide the full functionality. The package structure between them is identical and the one openSUSE delivers has a slight lower version number, so that it would be easy to update. (e.g. 1.5.99 vs 1.6) I have been using the VLC phonon backend for some time and it works fine. The only thing that I am seeing is that dragon somehow does not show video, but only sounds. But I am not sure if this is due to VLC as that I only get video when using the Xine backend. If we believe that the VLC backend is the way forward, then the VLC package should be submitted to a new project (e.g. multimedia:vlc) and for correct legal review. Just my five cents :-) Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org