Bug 97250 – Add "google" flag to vlc media player

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Nathan Toone 2005-06-27 13:08:09 UTC]

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
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[Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2005-06-27 13:48:00 UTC]

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. 
 

[Comment 2 Nathan Toone 2005-06-27 15:20:25 UTC]

The patch is against 0.8.3 anyway.  Thanks. 
 

[Comment 3 Nathan Toone 2005-06-27 15:33:19 UTC]

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. 

[Comment 4 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2005-06-27 15:56:31 UTC]

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. 
 

[Comment 5 Luca Barbato 2005-06-27 17:04:16 UTC]

Let me state the issue in another term

[Comment 6 Luca Barbato 2005-06-27 17:08:22 UTC]

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.