Bug 219318 – media-video/vlc: option --rc-fake-tty stopped working from version 0.8.6d

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Juha Aatrokoski 2008-04-26 07:46:48 UTC]

In VLC version 0.8.6d changes were added to modules/control/rc.c that prevent the use of the RC interface from another program. In effect these changes disable the RC interface if --rc-fake-tty is used. These changes appear to be absent from 0.9.0, so they are most likely a bug and not a bugfix.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run VLC 0.8.6[def] with vlc --intf rc --rc-fake-tty <file>
2. try to use the rc interface from the terminal (e.g. "help")

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens: input is ignored, no output produced.

Expected Results:  
The RC interface should work with --rc-fake-tty.

[Comment 1 Juha Aatrokoski 2008-04-26 07:49:00 UTC]

Created attachment 150989 [details, diff]
Patch for vlc-0.8.6f that reverts the introduced bug

[Comment 2 Alexis Ballier 2008-04-30 07:51:31 UTC]

yep these changes were introduced in:

http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=c37341f13f0d0a7ef847a9caf1688d01882627ce


This seems to fix a bug of cpu consumption with the rc interface. Could you please try to open a ticket on trac.videolan.org (I couldnt find one for this) that would explain that this causes regressions ?
I'm not sure if the patch can be reverted like that without causing more problems.

[Comment 3 Juha Aatrokoski 2008-04-30 11:03:49 UTC]

> This seems to fix a bug of cpu consumption with the rc interface. Could you
> please try to open a ticket on trac.videolan.org (I couldnt find one for this)
> that would explain that this causes regressions ?

I cannot open a ticket there because I don't have an account and the account creation does not work. Perhaps someone with a working account could do this?

[Comment 4 Alexis Ballier 2008-04-30 11:05:55 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> > This seems to fix a bug of cpu consumption with the rc interface. Could you
> > please try to open a ticket on trac.videolan.org (I couldnt find one for this)
> > that would explain that this causes regressions ?
> 
> I cannot open a ticket there because I don't have an account and the account
> creation does not work. Perhaps someone with a working account could do this?


just ask for one in #videolan on freenode; it usually is very quick to get one ;)
(or perhaps they have some web irc somewhere)

[Comment 5 Juha Aatrokoski 2008-05-12 10:57:33 UTC]

This is now submitted to VLC: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1581

[Comment 6 Alexis Ballier 2008-05-12 11:25:45 UTC]

thanks

[Comment 7 Alexis Ballier 2008-05-18 15:34:28 UTC]

0.8.6g has just hit the tree and should fix this