On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 21:40 +0100, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
Wolfgang Bauer wrote:
Am Montag, 19. Februar 2018, 17:37:26 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
Though I am oversimplifying, VLC is just a frontend for ffmpeg (and/or gstreamer, but that's just looks like a framework too).
Really?
I have to admit that I'm not aware of the details, but why does vlc-codecs contain these files then? /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/codec/libfaad_plugin.so /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/codec/liblibmpeg2_plugin.so /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/codec/libx264_plugin.so (and also vdpau stuff like /usr/lib64/vlc/libvlc_vdpau.so.0 )
One of the reasons I dislike VLC. They (used to) use their own compiled libraries, often patched from the default ones, basically it was almost self-supported like a flatpak... Not sure if that has changed.
That's only true if you WANT it to be true. The upstream tarball comes indeed with quite a few bundled libraries to make installation easier. Hardly any of them are patched in a a non-upstream supported way. And the openSUSE packages (and thus also PackMan and VideoLAN repo, since they all use the linked sources from openSUSE BuildService) don't use the libs shipped by the tarball. And actually did not since version 1.0 or so.
(the other reason was that the one time I installed it, at that time from their package, it immediately withot asking put itself in as default application for any format it supported, messing up my own configuration...)
For what I need mpv is for sure enough. But that was of course not the question ;^>
Then don't use VLC - you have the choice to use what you like. Cheers Dominique