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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:53:07 +0000
From:      David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
To:        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:  <204A47D8-F1CE-4140-ABFD-5E3A47FE6660@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20131030055710.GA14262@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201310291555.r9TFtUPK027583@svn.freebsd.org> <20131030055710.GA14262@FreeBSD.org>

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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
>>=20
>>  - Disable OSS (it is broken in vlc 2.1.0 and FreeBSD #9760)
>>  - Use pulse audio
>=20
> 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. :(
>=20
> 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? =20

David




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