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 > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
