On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Juergen Lock <n...@jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote: > Hi! > > I had been testing vlc 2.0.x on and off on 8.2 with older ports > and never could get native video to work (tho audio-only files and > videos via SDL work), and now I updated that port to 2.0.3 and > thought why not test it on the laptop that I recently updated to > 9.1 beta and more up to date ports, and guess what, there it works > just fine!! :) > > So now before we can update the port (and at least for a while > keep the old port as vlc-legacy; I already talked with the maintainer > who has little time atm) we need to know what to note in the 2.x > port about when ppl should expect it to work, so testers on various > FreeBSD versions are needed. > > So if you test it please report: > > - your FreeBSD version/arch and src svn rev/date of checkout (if > head or stable) > > - how old the rest of your installed ports are > > - your video hardware (tho that's probably less relevant since > it worked via remote X also displaying on the 8.2 box from the > 9.1 one and the other way around it also didn't work; the 8.2 box > has radeon and the 9.1 nvidia) > > - and whether native video output works (if it doesn't playback > will stop right away; audio-only files should always work, also > changing video output to SDL should) > > And here is the patch: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/vlc-2.0.3-001.patch
Tested on FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE of 7/18 with no problems. All ports were current as of 7/18. On Intel Core i5 (Sandybridge) ThinkPad T520 laptop running amd64 with i915kms driver. Everything I tried worked flawlessly. Thanks! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
