Re: pkg/41666: multimedia/vlc08 / multimedia/ffmpeg incompatibility (NetBSD 4.0)

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41666; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/41666: multimedia/vlc08 / multimedia/ffmpeg incompatibility
 (NetBSD 4.0)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:01:38 -0400

 On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:25:02 +0000 (UTC)
 Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost> wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/41666; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/41666: multimedia/vlc08 / multimedia/ffmpeg incompatibility 
 > (NetBSD 4.0)
 > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:21:36 +0200
 > 
 >  On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 02:15:05PM +0000, Matthew Mondor wrote:
 >  >  On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:30:07 +0000 (UTC)
 >  >  Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:
 >  [..]
 >  
 >  >  >  For vlc08, maybe it is simply time to retire it?   Note that vlc
 >  >  >  (the newer version) builds fine, it is only the outdated version that
 >  >  >  has the problem.   Simply removing it as obsolete and unbuildable
 >  >  >  might be the correct answer for this PR.
 >  >  
 >  >  Most probably.  If a reason to keep vlc08 was because it was lighter,
 >  >  mplayer is also an available alternative...
 >  
 >  Yeah, the qt4 dependency for vlc isn't very nice and qt4 didn't install
 >  correctly at all (pkg/40461).
 
 I was told once that vlc could build without qt4 support with x11
 option disabled.  Well I decided to try this, and built it under
 pkgsrc-2009Q1 (since that's what I have on a box here) with:
 
 Any of the following general options may be selected:
         arts     Use the aRts audio daemon.
         dbus     Enable dbus (desktop bus) support.
         debug    Enable debugging facilities in the package.
         esound   Enable support for the Enlightment Sound Daemon.
         faad     Enable AAC decoding support using faad2.
         gnome    Enable GNOME support.
         hal      Support for the freedesktop.org Hardware Abstraction Layer
         pulseaudio       Enable support for the PulseAudio sound server.
         sdl      Use SDL as display library.
         skins   
         x11      Enable X11 support.
 
 These options are enabled by default:
         esound pulseaudio x11
 
 These options are currently enabled:
         sdl
 
 This actually works.  It also works without the sdl option, and if SDL
 is enabled for it to be used -V SDL has to explicitely be used.
 However, vlc appears to frequently segfault on startup (1/4th of the
 time on the same file), and the keyboard interface is very limited
 compared to mplayer's.  I also for some reason had to comment in the
 PLIST lib/vlc/video_output/libsnapshot_plugin.la for it to install
 successfully.
 
 I guess that since it can work without qt, it's another reason to
 remove vlc08 :)
 -- 
 Matt