On 06/06/2016 03:02 PM, Tim Tassonis wrote:
Hi Bruce
On 06/06/16 20:48, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I've been trying to remove qt4 from the book. Right now I'm working on
vlc. There is a new release, 2.2.4, but I've had to find a lot of
patches to make it work with both qt5 and gcc6. We already have one
patch and I can certainly create a consolidated patch, but it is a lot
of work to get things right.
On the other hand I can create a tarball from git, vlc-3.0.0-git.tar.xz,
that works in a straightforward way with qt5 and gcc6. The tarball can
be hosted on anduin.
I'm inclined to go with the git version, but it is an exception to our
normal policy of using just 'stable' releases. In this case, the
upstream 2.2.4 release, and predecessors, do not seem to be very stable
in our development environment.
I'm asking for opinions before I proceed.
I'd definitely would welcome the switch to 3.0.0-git and qt 5 and would
also test it and report problems.
Maybe, if it is not any extra work for you, you could leave the old vlc
2 page and add a vlc 3 page, until it's clear that vlc 3/qt5 works well?
Tim
I want to pass along some issues I am having with this version that I
don't have with vlc-2.2.3. That version (2.2.3) was built on a separate
build using Qt 5.6 and gcc5.3 (same hardware). This version I built
using Qt 5.7 and gcc6. For video output I am using OpenGL GLX on both
builds, but I tried the others to see if it would solve my issues.
Here are links to two sample videos for reference. The first (lower
resolution) video plays fine. The second (higher resolution) video plays
for about a second then the screen turns gray and pixelated. Both of
these videos play fine in Parole.
http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/sources/video/clips/details/images/m84_1.mpg
http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/sources/video/clips/details/images/m84_2.mpg
I am also having issues playing a DVD. The video is not smooth.
YouTube videos seem to stream fine. This video plays fine:
https://youtu.be/0E-KnJB24Ss
Also mp4 and flv seem to play fine.
I am interested to know if anyone else has encountered similar problems
or if it is just me. I should probably also mention that both builds are
systemd builds. The older build has xfce desktop which I start using
startx and the newer build has gnome desktop with gdm.
Thank you,
Paul Hentschel
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