https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469822
Bug ID: 469822 Summary: Please be more explicit about whether to package with VLC or not Classification: Applications Product: Elisa Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS: Linux Status: REPORTED Severity: wishlist Priority: NOR Component: general Assignee: matthieu_gall...@yahoo.fr Reporter: jackhill3...@gmail.com Target Milestone: --- SUMMARY Elisa currently has libVLC set as a recommended package, but not all distros seem to compile with VLC. This comment from a merge request ( https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/elisa/-/merge_requests/400#note_606702 ) seems to indicate that the VLC backend is purely to allow Elisa to play patented codecs on Windows without the user having to manually install codecs. Hence, it makes me wonder if we should recommend that package maintainers should package Elisa *without* VLC. If the Qt6 ffmpeg backend allows us to use patented codecs on Windows then the VLC backend will become obsolete anyway, so it's likely we'll drop the VLC backend at some point in the future. Might as well start pushing for it now, right? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.