Google's video is now available. There should be a use flag, probably "Google" that would apply the patch found at http://code.google.com/patches.html I'm planning on trying this out in a little while - I don't have the time right now. I will post any results that I find. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Sorry this makes it Google-exclusive. I don't really like this, also because the patch is unsupported and it's mainly windowsish. If it's worth, 0.8.3 will have it.
The patch is against 0.8.3 anyway. Thanks.
One other thing to think about - what about a new ebuild, rather than a new use flag? (call it vlc-google or something) and have it install in a different location so that there is no conflict... Just a thought.
I'm not going to support something that even the authors doesn't support, and something like that would anyway require other things present as it removes a lot of features. And I'm not sure whether it's tested or not on Linux as it refers explicitly to Windows stuff.
Let me state the issue in another term
The patch causes just a feature regression to the vlc plugin and adds some branding. In the current state makes NO sense add it the vlc plugin will always do the right thing about that content, as a xine or mplayer or another opensource media plugin does. Sorry to be harsh but I like choice when it is meaningful and in the current state it isn't. If the patch is an improvement to vlc we'll have a look and see as the upstream developer will.
