https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397594
--- Comment #6 from Lukas Kahnert <openproggerfr...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Mauro Carvalho Chehab from comment #5) > (In reply to Lukas Kahnert from comment #4) > > I'm affected by this bug too and looked at the source and try to fix myself. > > The problem is (I think) libVLC's API doesn't provide embedding video output > > into wayland sufaces(I only found for X11,OSX and Windows). > > In wayland sessions kaffeine runs with the wayland backend and tries to pass > > the wayland surface to libVLC(which of course fails) and the result is this > > bug. > > > > Possible workround is running kaffeine with "-platform xcb" to force the X11 > > backend. > > > > As an experiment I made an minimal mpv-backend(which uses OpenGL-surfaces) > > and it fixes the bug too. > > Could you please send the mpv-backend patches? It could be worth having a > different backend on Kaffeine (although I think Gstreamer would likely give > better results). As I said it's just minimal which only suppports play and stop. mpv has an qt example in their sources which I used for this. Why a Gstreamer backend? Wouldn't be better to support (as KDE Project) Phonon as primary backend? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
