Bug 322507 – new ebuild: media-sound/phonon-vlc

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Fabian Henze 2010-06-02 19:49:48 UTC]

This is a new phonon backend that is in alpha stage, but works fine for me. It has better audio quality compared to phonon-xine and improved support for FLAC and APE files in amarok :-)
All you need is phonon and libvlc-1.1.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Fabian Henze 2010-06-02 19:53:04 UTC]

Created attachment 233879 [details]
phonon-vlc-9999.ebuild

This is a git ebuild for phonon-vlc. It works fine for me, however this [1] blog suggests, that one should run kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental after the installation. I was not sure if it is safe to do so in an ebuild and it wasn't needed on my system either.

[Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2010-06-02 22:35:23 UTC]

Hello, The Gentoo Team would like to firstly thank you for your ebuild 
submission. We also apologize for not being able to accommodate you in a timely
manner. There are simply too many new packages.

Allow me to use this opportunity to introduce you to Gentoo Sunrise. The 
sunrise overlay[1] is a overlay for Gentoo which we allow trusted users to 
commit to and all users can have ebuilds reviewed by Gentoo devs for entry 
into the overlay. So, the sunrise team is suggesting that you look into this 
and submit your ebuild to the overlay where even *you* can commit to. =)

Thanks,
On behalf of the Gentoo Sunrise Team,
Markos.

[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/
[2]: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki/SunriseFaq

[Comment 3 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2010-06-03 04:07:07 UTC]

This package has been available in the kde overlay for sometime now - http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=tree;f=media-sound/phonon-vlc;h=70954e7ff4404b2fc64c094943e613e76950cad2;hb=master

[Comment 4 Michał Górny 2010-10-30 07:48:36 UTC]

The package seems to be in gx86 already.