2 is the better solution.
4 is impossible for me as VLC is not in the main packaging repositories.

On 22 December 2015 at 21:03, Tomas Groth <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As a new release is coming up a lot sooner that originally expected, it
> also means that we need to make a decision regarding how we handle our VLC
> integration.
>
> Currently we tell users to install VLC manually and this causes problems
> on Windows and Mac OS X, where users have trouble installing the correct
> version (32-bit on Windows and 64-bit on Mac). This is a real problem for
> many of our users!
> So to handle this there's a few things we can do:
>
> 1. Keep things as they are.
> 2. Add a text in the "Player" configuration tab that tells the users that
> they need XX-bit version of VLC to get it detected
> 3. Do as above, but do real detection of VLC lib to see if the wrong bit
> version of VLC is installed.
> 4. Bundle VLC with OpenLP
> 5. ??
>
> Personally I would prefer 2 (IMHO the simplest for us) or 4 (most user
> friendly).
> Let me know what you think!
>
> Best regards,
> Tomas
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