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.

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.

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.