[kde-freebsd] Phonon-vlc crashing

[Juergen Lock]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 06:17:35PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:37:01AM +0000, Max Brazhnikov wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:16:04 +0100 Juergen Lock wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 08:26:39PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:19:24AM +0000, Max Brazhnikov wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:47:30 +0100 Schaich Alonso wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 20:38:09 +0200
> > > > > > David Naylor <dbn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I always seem to be complaining about Phonon :-(.  My latest issue has been crashes in phonon-vlc (phonon-gstreamer still doesn't work).  
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > while it seemed not to have been useful to someone else contacting the
> > > > > > mailing list yesterday, I found either
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > * uninstalling multimedia/phonon-vlc and reinstalling
> > > > > > x11/kde4-workspace with gstreamer instead of vlc OPTION set,
> > > > > 
> > > > > multimedia/phonon-gstreamer doen't work with KDE due to other problem
> > > > > (mixing GStreamer 0.10 and 1.x). I'm working on qtwebkit23 to replace
> > > > > qt4-webkit, which is the last GStreamer 0.10 consumer, but it'll take some
> > > > > time.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > or
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > * reinstalling multimedia/vlc without it's QT5 ports OPTION
> > > > > > workarounds the issue for me.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This is not an option for package users. multimedia/phonon-vlc  needs !Qt5
> > > > > version of VLC. Perhaps we need a slave port for Qt 4 VLC if multimedia@ team
> > > > > have reasons to stick to Qt 5.
> > > > > 
> > > > I was just taking the default that the vlc 2.2 build picked up
> > > > (qt5), thinking that support for anything else (qt4) is deprecated
> > > > by vlc upstream and would sooner or later bitrot anyway.
> > > > 
> > > >  But if there's a reason to have a vlc-qt4 slave port while that
> > > > still works I'm of course not against it...
> > > > 
> > > Does this work for you?
> > > 
> > > 	https://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/vlc-qt4slaveport-001.patch
> > 
> > It works only you have no locally installed qt5-x11extras. Otherwise vlc-qt4
> > picks up Qt5 headers and results in linking to both Qt4 and Qt5
> > libraries.
> > 
> Ugh that configure script is really not friendly...  Try this:
> 
> 	https://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/vlc-qt4slaveport-002.patch
> 
Unrelated:  found SIDPLAY knob is now broken so removed it:

	https://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/vlc-qt4slaveport-003.patch

 Cheers, :)
	Juergen