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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