* [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video: vlc.xml
@ 2007-11-23 17:52 Alexis Ballier (aballier)
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From: Alexis Ballier (aballier) @ 2007-11-23 17:52 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-commits
aballier 07/11/23 17:52:08
Modified: vlc.xml
Log:
change videolan client to vlc media player, thanks to xtophe
Revision Changes Path
1.20 xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.20&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.20&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?r1=1.19&r2=1.20
Index: vlc.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.19
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -r1.19 -r1.20
--- vlc.xml 10 Feb 2007 10:19:49 -0000 1.19
+++ vlc.xml 23 Nov 2007 17:52:07 -0000 1.20
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.19 2007/02/10 10:19:49 aballier Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.20 2007/11/23 17:52:07 aballier Exp $ -->
<guide link="/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml" lang="en">
<title>vlc and related</title>
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
<p>
<c>media-video/vlc</c> is
-<uri link="http://www.videolan.org/">Videolan Client</uri>, a multimedia player
+<uri link="http://www.videolan.org/">VLC media player</uri>, a multimedia player
with different interface modules, though primarily as a streaming client.
There are no frontends a part the core <c>vlc</c> binary, but the different
interfaces are loaded as modules.
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* [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video: vlc.xml
@ 2008-03-08 15:03 Alexis Ballier (aballier)
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From: Alexis Ballier (aballier) @ 2008-03-08 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-commits
aballier 08/03/08 15:03:30
Modified: vlc.xml
Log:
update vlc guide and add myself as contributor to not let Diego endorse all the responsibility for what I write
Revision Changes Path
1.21 xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.21&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.21&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?r1=1.20&r2=1.21
Index: vlc.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.20
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -r1.20 -r1.21
--- vlc.xml 23 Nov 2007 17:52:07 -0000 1.20
+++ vlc.xml 8 Mar 2008 15:03:30 -0000 1.21
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.20 2007/11/23 17:52:07 aballier Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.21 2008/03/08 15:03:30 aballier Exp $ -->
<guide link="/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml" lang="en">
<title>vlc and related</title>
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
<author title="Author">
<mail link="flameeyes@gentoo.org">Diego Pettenò</mail>
</author>
+<author title="Contributor">
+ <mail link="aballier@gentoo.org">Alexis Ballier</mail>
+</author>
<abstract>
Maintainer notes about vlc and its relatives
@@ -18,8 +21,8 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>1.18</version>
-<date>2007-01-02</date>
+<version>1.19</version>
+<date>2008-03-08</date>
<chapter> <!-- vlc -->
<title>vlc</title>
@@ -30,7 +33,7 @@
<body>
<note>
-This guide was last updated for <c>vlc</c> version 0.8.5-r5.
+This guide was last updated for <c>vlc</c> version 0.8.6e.
</note>
<p>
@@ -94,10 +97,10 @@
</p>
<p>
-While there is a Bugzilla for VideoLan software, it's mostly dead, and not
-followed by developers at all. The right place where to send patches for
-upstream is via their <path>vlc-devel</path>
-<uri link="http://developers.videolan.org/lists.html">mailing list</uri>.
+There are two ways to send patches upstream: either via their <path>vlc-devel</path>
+<uri link="http://developers.videolan.org/lists.html">mailing list</uri> or by
+<uri link="http://wiki.videolan.org/Report_bugs">reporting a bug</uri> in the
+<uri link="https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/">Trac system</uri>.
</p>
<p>
@@ -271,6 +274,9 @@
For this reason VLC in Gentoo is patched to accept FFmpeg's AAC codec
(that's otherwise blacklisted) and relies on that instead than on the
native AAC plugin, that's forcefully disabled.
+ Starting from 0.9.0 snapshots of vlc, the aac flag is back and the patch
+ to not blacklist FFmpeg's AAC codec has been dropped. It is now possible
+ since we have a recent faad2 library and this makes us closer to upstream.
</ti>
</tr>
@@ -282,18 +288,7 @@
Pth's threading does not work fine with many of the libraries used by VLC
itself, enabling it makes the software highly unstable. Don't make an
useflag, instead pass <path>--disable-pth</path> directly to <c>econf</c>.
- </ti>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <ti>slp</ti>
- <ti>SLP protocol in services' discovery</ti>
- <ti>net-libs/openslp</ti>
- <ti>
- <c>vlc</c> up to 0.8.4 is incompatible with latest <c>openslp</c> API, so
- it won't build against it. To avoid automagic dependencies, pass
- <path>--disable-slp</path> to <c>econf</c>. slp support is dropped
- upstream for verion 0.8.5.
+ Starting from 0.9.0 snapshots, upstream has dropped pth support.
</ti>
</tr>
@@ -308,18 +303,6 @@
</tr>
<tr>
- <ti>h264</ti>
- <ti>Enables H.264 encoding support with libx264</ti>
- <ti>media-libs/x264-svn</ti>
- <ti>
- This extra support is needed for encoding of video using H.264 codec, but
- the library used (<c>x264-svn</c>) is not yet stable and the API is not
- compatible with <c>vlc</c>. The support is then forcefully disabled by
- <path>--disable-h264</path> to avoid automagic dependencies.
- </ti>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
<ti>dirac</ti>
<ti>Enables experimental dirac codec</ti>
<ti>media-libs/dirac</ti>
@@ -357,6 +340,16 @@
<ti>libtar doesn't build a PIC shared library thus we disable it</ti>
</tr>
+ <tr>
+ <ti>ieee1394</ti>
+ <ti>Enables support for ieee1394 DV cameras</ti>
+ <ti>sys-libs/libraw1394</ti>
+ <ti>
+ Displays warnings in kernel logs about using a too old interface and did
+ not give any image from a DV camera
+ </ti>
+ </tr>
+
</table>
</body>
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* [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video: vlc.xml
@ 2008-08-24 23:14 Alexis Ballier (aballier)
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From: Alexis Ballier (aballier) @ 2008-08-24 23:14 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-commits
aballier 08/08/24 23:14:05
Modified: vlc.xml
Log:
update vlc guide for 0.9.0 and remove trailing whitespaces
Revision Changes Path
1.22 xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.22&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.22&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?r1=1.21&r2=1.22
Index: vlc.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.21
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -r1.21 -r1.22
--- vlc.xml 8 Mar 2008 15:03:30 -0000 1.21
+++ vlc.xml 24 Aug 2008 23:14:04 -0000 1.22
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.21 2008/03/08 15:03:30 aballier Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.22 2008/08/24 23:14:04 aballier Exp $ -->
<guide link="/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml" lang="en">
<title>vlc and related</title>
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>1.19</version>
-<date>2008-03-08</date>
+<version>1.20</version>
+<date>2008-08-25</date>
<chapter> <!-- vlc -->
<title>vlc</title>
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
<body>
<note>
-This guide was last updated for <c>vlc</c> version 0.8.6e.
+This guide was last updated for <c>vlc</c> version 0.9.0.
</note>
<p>
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@
<th>Dependency</th>
<th>Reason for removing</th>
</tr>
-
+
<tr>
<ti>aac</ti>
<ti>AAC (Advanced Audio Codec) support</ti>
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@
since we have a recent faad2 library and this makes us closer to upstream.
</ti>
</tr>
-
+
<tr>
<ti>threads</ti>
<ti>Thread support</ti>
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@
Starting from 0.9.0 snapshots, upstream has dropped pth support.
</ti>
</tr>
-
+
<tr>
<ti>portaudio</ti>
<ti>PortAudio output plugin</ti>
@@ -301,17 +301,7 @@
version (19), not present in Portage and too unstable.
</ti>
</tr>
-
- <tr>
- <ti>dirac</ti>
- <ti>Enables experimental dirac codec</ti>
- <ti>media-libs/dirac</ti>
- <ti>
- Missing testcase to evaluate correct behavior of the codec. Until a dirac
- encoded file can be used to check correctness, leave disabled.
- </ti>
- </tr>
-
+
<tr>
<ti>tremor</ti>
<ti>Enables Tremor decoder support</ti>
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* [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video: vlc.xml
@ 2009-05-05 18:38 Alexis Ballier (aballier)
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From: Alexis Ballier (aballier) @ 2009-05-05 18:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-commits
aballier 09/05/05 18:38:14
Modified: vlc.xml
Log:
remove obsolete information
Revision Changes Path
1.23 xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.23&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.23&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?r1=1.22&r2=1.23
Index: vlc.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.22
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -r1.22 -r1.23
--- vlc.xml 24 Aug 2008 23:14:04 -0000 1.22
+++ vlc.xml 5 May 2009 18:38:14 -0000 1.23
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.22 2008/08/24 23:14:04 aballier Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.23 2009/05/05 18:38:14 aballier Exp $ -->
<guide link="/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml" lang="en">
<title>vlc and related</title>
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>1.20</version>
-<date>2008-08-25</date>
+<version>1.21</version>
+<date>2009-05-05</date>
<chapter> <!-- vlc -->
<title>vlc</title>
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
<body>
<note>
-This guide was last updated for <c>vlc</c> version 0.9.0.
+This guide was last updated for <c>vlc</c> version 0.9.9a.
</note>
<p>
@@ -265,34 +265,6 @@
</tr>
<tr>
- <ti>aac</ti>
- <ti>AAC (Advanced Audio Codec) support</ti>
- <ti>media-libs/faad2</ti>
- <ti>
- The code handling AAC files using FAAD2 library is broken on some systems,
- the library is also dead upstream and a problem to deal with when used.
- For this reason VLC in Gentoo is patched to accept FFmpeg's AAC codec
- (that's otherwise blacklisted) and relies on that instead than on the
- native AAC plugin, that's forcefully disabled.
- Starting from 0.9.0 snapshots of vlc, the aac flag is back and the patch
- to not blacklist FFmpeg's AAC codec has been dropped. It is now possible
- since we have a recent faad2 library and this makes us closer to upstream.
- </ti>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <ti>threads</ti>
- <ti>Thread support</ti>
- <ti>dev-libs/pth</ti>
- <ti>
- Pth's threading does not work fine with many of the libraries used by VLC
- itself, enabling it makes the software highly unstable. Don't make an
- useflag, instead pass <path>--disable-pth</path> directly to <c>econf</c>.
- Starting from 0.9.0 snapshots, upstream has dropped pth support.
- </ti>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
<ti>portaudio</ti>
<ti>PortAudio output plugin</ti>
<ti>>=media-sound/portaudio-19</ti>
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* [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video: vlc.xml
@ 2009-05-06 6:13 Alexis Ballier (aballier)
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From: Alexis Ballier (aballier) @ 2009-05-06 6:13 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-commits
aballier 09/05/06 06:13:10
Modified: vlc.xml
Log:
remove information about wxgtk interface which has been dropped starting from 0.9
Revision Changes Path
1.24 xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.24&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.24&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?r1=1.23&r2=1.24
Index: vlc.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.23
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.23 -r1.24
--- vlc.xml 5 May 2009 18:38:14 -0000 1.23
+++ vlc.xml 6 May 2009 06:13:10 -0000 1.24
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.23 2009/05/05 18:38:14 aballier Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.24 2009/05/06 06:13:10 aballier Exp $ -->
<guide link="/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml" lang="en">
<title>vlc and related</title>
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>1.21</version>
-<date>2009-05-05</date>
+<version>1.22</version>
+<date>2009-05-06</date>
<chapter> <!-- vlc -->
<title>vlc</title>
@@ -235,16 +235,6 @@
</p>
<p>
-As of version 0.8.4, <c>vlc</c> dropped the <b>unicode</b> useflag, this because
-the code shipped by upstream is currently bound to <c>wxGTK</c> 2.6 with unicode
-support, and it's then better to just stick with that version instead of
-tinkering to enable the non-unicode support. <c>wxGTK</c> 2.6 supports unicode
-natively and it's no more an experimental version as it was with 2.4 version.
-For this reason the <path>--enable-utf8</path> option is also always passed to
-the <c>econf</c> line.
-</p>
-
-<p>
The <b>live</b> useflag enable support of live555 for RTSP support,
provided by <c>media-plugins/live</c>. Starting from version
2006.12.08 of this latter package, the way it is installed in the
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* [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video: vlc.xml
@ 2009-07-03 21:52 Alexis Ballier (aballier)
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From: Alexis Ballier (aballier) @ 2009-07-03 21:52 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-commits
aballier 09/07/03 21:52:12
Modified: vlc.xml
Log:
update vlc guide, ieee1394 is now an useflag
Revision Changes Path
1.25 xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.25&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.25&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?r1=1.24&r2=1.25
Index: vlc.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.24
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -r1.24 -r1.25
--- vlc.xml 6 May 2009 06:13:10 -0000 1.24
+++ vlc.xml 3 Jul 2009 21:52:12 -0000 1.25
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.24 2009/05/06 06:13:10 aballier Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.25 2009/07/03 21:52:12 aballier Exp $ -->
<guide link="/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml" lang="en">
<title>vlc and related</title>
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>1.22</version>
-<date>2009-05-06</date>
+<version>1.23</version>
+<date>2009-07-03</date>
<chapter> <!-- vlc -->
<title>vlc</title>
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
<body>
<note>
-This guide was last updated for <c>vlc</c> version 0.9.9a.
+This guide was last updated for <c>vlc</c> version 1.0.0-rc4.
</note>
<p>
@@ -292,16 +292,6 @@
<ti>libtar doesn't build a PIC shared library thus we disable it</ti>
</tr>
- <tr>
- <ti>ieee1394</ti>
- <ti>Enables support for ieee1394 DV cameras</ti>
- <ti>sys-libs/libraw1394</ti>
- <ti>
- Displays warnings in kernel logs about using a too old interface and did
- not give any image from a DV camera
- </ti>
- </tr>
-
</table>
</body>
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* [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video: vlc.xml
@ 2009-11-12 19:40 Alexis Ballier (aballier)
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From: Alexis Ballier (aballier) @ 2009-11-12 19:40 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-commits
aballier 09/11/12 19:40:58
Modified: vlc.xml
Log:
remove outdated information
Revision Changes Path
1.26 xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.26&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?rev=1.26&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml?r1=1.25&r2=1.26
Index: vlc.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.25
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -r1.25 -r1.26
--- vlc.xml 3 Jul 2009 21:52:12 -0000 1.25
+++ vlc.xml 12 Nov 2009 19:40:57 -0000 1.26
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.25 2009/07/03 21:52:12 aballier Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml,v 1.26 2009/11/12 19:40:57 aballier Exp $ -->
<guide link="/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml" lang="en">
<title>vlc and related</title>
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>1.23</version>
-<date>2009-07-03</date>
+<version>1.24</version>
+<date>2009-11-12</date>
<chapter> <!-- vlc -->
<title>vlc</title>
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
<body>
<note>
-This guide was last updated for <c>vlc</c> version 1.0.0-rc4.
+This guide was last updated for <c>vlc</c> version 1.0.3.
</note>
<p>
@@ -57,13 +57,6 @@
as they are handled differently in Portage from what the other distributions do.
</p>
-<p>
-As many other software, also <c>vlc</c> is shipped with a <path>debian</path>
-subdirectory. In particular, inside that directory there's a
-<path>.desktop</path> file that can be installed to provide a menu entry for
-vlc itself (when using wxWidgets interface).
-</p>
-
</body>
</section>
@@ -75,9 +68,8 @@
<p>
Patches for <c>vlc</c> are a bit different respect <c>xine-lib</c>, as they are
sometimes exclusive to Gentoo Linux and simply can't be upstreamed at all. This
-is the case of the patch that removes glide v2 support and the ones that changes
-some libraries from builtin to plugins (with the assumption that Gentoo always
-have them as PIC libraries).
+is the case of the patches that change some libraries from builtin to plugins
+(with the assumption that Gentoo always have them as PIC libraries).
</p>
<p>
@@ -118,12 +110,6 @@
a link to relevant bugs, both in Gentoo and upstream.
</note>
-<p>
-A single note is worth with respect to compiler's flags handling: GCC 2.95
-requires to strip <path>-fomit-frame-pointer</path> flag or the build does not
-work; that flag is actually required to build <c>vlc</c> with recent GCCs.
-</p>
-
</body>
</section>
@@ -158,8 +144,7 @@
<p>
The use of plugins instead of builtins allows VLC to continue working also if
one of the libraries gets broken by a changed ABI, as the plugins fails to load
-on demand, while builtins breaks the main executable file. For this reason, the
-plugins are preferred over builtins.
+on demand, while builtins breaks the main executable file.
</p>
<p>
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