Bug 254380

Summary:	media-video/vlc-0.9.8a missing USE="pda" for ./configure --enable-pda
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Angelo Arrifano (RETIRED) <miknix>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Alexis Ballier <aballier>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	solar
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Angelo Arrifano (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-10 04:27:45 UTC

media-video/vlc-0.9.8a provides a small GTK+ interface when built
with ./configure --enable-pda.
I've successfully built vlc with pda flag set, a libpda_plugin.so
is created under /usr/lib/vlc/gui/ .

VLC runs on my ARMV5te omap850 device although I could not find a way
to make vlc load the module.
The module is correctly linked against gtk+.

Do you have experienced something with this pda flag?

-Regards

Comment 1 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2009-01-10 13:16:57 UTC

It seems there is no wrapper for the pda interface, but vlc -I pda appears to work fine here; could you please try this ?

Things like https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1798 show that this gui module isnt really maintained though

with trolltech providing embedded qt support I suppose the need for such a module has gone down with the qt4 switch

Comment 2 Angelo Arrifano (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-10 15:14:55 UTC

-I was what I was looking for, thanks.

Yes, it works. The interface looks appropriate for embedded
devices like my HTC Wizard.
screenshot: http://dev.gentoo.org/~miknix/vlc_pda.png

We at GPE herd would benefit from this flag since VLC-pda is
on the official GPE roadmap.

What do you both think? solar and aballier

Comment 3 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2009-01-11 17:20:11 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> What do you both think? solar and aballier


i have nothing against it, so i added the useflag as "pda" (its certainly not a good idea to use it on a desktop, so i dont want it named gtk)