On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 1:16 PM Stefan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> On 03.03.20 00:52, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > so in the name of some simplification...
> >
> > our vlc support just doesn't work (libvlc or generic player that's vlc 
> > based).
> > xine still kind of works - but seems to have bugs. i won't detail them here.
> > try and see.
>
> When I cruised through efl end of last year and beginning of this one to
> remove many parts we longer use I left them out, not being sure how much
> they are still used.
>
> Same as you I have seen the user problems on IRC where people tried to
> use rage with VL or xine and it did not work. Once configured efl with
> gstreamer it it was a go.
>
> Do we know about any remaining users of these two? Letting them out in
> the rain would not be nice, but if it is just people who did not make
> the switch yet we could encourage them.
>
> > my point is more... perhaps time to simplify and remove:
> >
> > 1. xine, libvlc and generic players for emotion.
> > 2. remove the build options for the above
>
> To clarify: you want to remove the complete code or only the build
> options in meson to enable them?

i am in favor on having emotion or not, with only gst as code, so no
emotion module at all

> > 3. simplify to a -Dgstreamer=true/false that enables the only emotion module
> > left AND the evas gstreamer loader (and remove it from the evas image 
> > loaders
> > as there are now 2 gst dependency options)...

-Demotion=true/false

Vincent

> Yes, when we have done the above that would be a good idea to simplify this.
>
> > less code to test, debug and maintain, fewer options to confuse people. the
> > code removed is broken now anyway, so we don't lose functionality.
> >
> > comments?
>
> I am all for it (should not surprise anyone) but I wanted to give it
> some time and make some noise about it to find out if there are valid
> uses cases people are still having and using.
>
> regards
> Stefan Schmidt
>
>
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