Hello,

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Stefan Schmidt
<ste...@datenfreihafen.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 00:20, Davide Andreoli wrote:
>> 2014-02-18 21:29 GMT+01:00 Stefan Schmidt <ste...@datenfreihafen.org>:
>>
>> > Hello.
>> >
>> > On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 19:59, Davide Andreoli wrote:
>> > > 2014-02-17 16:24 GMT+01:00 Stefan Schmidt <ste...@datenfreihafen.org>:
>> > >
>> > > > Hello.
>> > > >
>> > > > Back from vacation and done with crawling through mails.
>> > > >
>> > > > I'm now pondering in what state the release is right now. I have seen
>> > > > bug fixes coming in but also seen more bug reports coming in.
>> > > >
>> > > > The beta release tarball will slip a day from today to tomorrow due to
>> > > > my catchup today.
>> > > >
>> > > > What I also ponder is if we are ready next Monday. What do you folks
>> > > > think about it?
>> > > >
>> > > > I would be a ok with a one week slip (final release on 03.03.2014). Do
>> > > > we have bugs that are worth waiting this one week? Would it help or
>> > > > not?
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > I'm for for the one week slip, I'm finding lots of new issue in the
>> > emotion
>> > > vlc backend that need to be fixed.
>> >
>> > I need something more concrete than this vague statement. :)
>> >
>> > What issues are you seeing?
>> > Why are they urgent out of the blue? The emotion vlc backend is only
>> > in emotion_generic_players and not in efl and there have been almost
>> > now work on it for some time. I have problem to understand why it
>> > becomes so urgent a week before the release. I want to get people out
>> > of the habit to do it all just before the release. :)
>> >
>>
>> Sorry for the vague statement, but I'm still investigate on the problems
>> and
>> how to fix them.
>> Bugs I know in the vlc engine are:
>>
>> 1. setting volume and mute does not work if you set them before the
>> video has fully started (volume is really annoying, as the video always
>> start with the wrong value)
>
> Indeed annoying but as raster stated there would be a workaround for
> now.

I have found this problem to be related to vlc version last time I
looked at it (Arguably there is a few things in the vlc backend that
could really be improved, but are out of scope for the release).

[snip]

>> I don't know if we want to consider those as showstopper (I do) but a week
>> delay
>> shouldn't hurt too much imo.
>
> The real question is if the week would help to actually fix these
> bugs. I would think that these problems also show up with emoton
> generic players 1.8.1, right?
>
> In the bigger picture for me they look like bugs but not showstoppers
> for the whole release because a) emotion generic players is really a
> small component compared to efl and elementary and b) these bugs are
> lingering around for a long time or are related to libvlc changes.

I agreed with you on that.
-- 
Cedric BAIL

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