On 02/23/2017 04:38 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > I've taken a look at building phonon-backend-vlc for EL7. The version that is > in the el7 branch in git is 0.7.1-1, which does not build because it requires > phonon 4.7.0, and EL7 has phonon 4.6.0. I was able to build 0.6.2-1 fine. > > Is there any objections to me reverting to 0.6.2-1 in git? (I suppose someone > with right access to the git repo could reset the el7 branch to that, but not > sure it's worth it). > > Also, while trying it out via dragon player in an X2Go session I'm getting: > > [00007f21a8054578] vdpau_avcodec generic error: Xlib is required for VDPAU > [00007f21a8054578] vdpau_avcodec generic error: Xlib is required for VDPAU > [00007f21a80a84b8] core video output error: video output creation failed > [00007f21c0019cc8] core decoder error: failed to create video output > > If anyone has any ideas that, that would be helpful. > Okay, I figured out these errors - it's because vlc needs the basic libxcb_* video_output plugins, but for some reason they are in the main vlc package rather than vlc-core. This doesn't make since to me since vlc requires vlc-core. I don't want the vlc binaries, but the libraries/plugins needed for playback.

The split with vlc-core isn't about binaries vs libraries, but with headless/server/core vs wayland/Xorg/display.

What you suggest is to add libvlc and libvlc-core to vlc and vlc-core.

That's not implemented, and IMO it doesn't worth either. What would be the benefit not to rely on vlc itself ? - not having the vlc desktop file? - not having vlc binaries ? - not having the qt4/qt5/skin2 vlc gui interfaces ?

I all theses cases, it could be to minimize the dependencies cost more than additional size of few unneeded binaries. And speaking about phonon, you should already have the qt4/qt5 libs. But dependencies size matters most for embedeed/server use case, not workstation. So it's doesn't bring any value and just make things more complex to deal with.

2017-02-27 12:14 GMT+01:00 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at&gt;: > Nicolas Chauvet wrote: >> The split with vlc-core isn't about binaries vs libraries, but with >> headless/server/core vs wayland/Xorg/display. > > … which is a split whose usefulness I doubt. All the applications with > associated library are split into app and app-libs, not app (GUI) and > app-core. I don't buy this, so I'm not reading this message any further based on your false premises.