Sorry. Last paragraph were supposed to read "The ideal solution would be to have A PORT/PACKAGE version OF vlc-0.8.6i co-existing with newer versions IN PORTS/PACKAGES until the VideoLAN folks finally got netsync working"
or something like that.. On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 08:12:48AM +0100, Erling Westenvik wrote: > I'm looking for a way to get vlc-0.8.6i (code name "Janus" and which was > in ports/packages on OpenBSD 4.7) running on OpenBSD 5.0. AFAIK 0.8.6 > was the last/only version of vlc that truly honored the boasted netsync > option. At least it worked for me and I have been able to have several > machines in different rooms playing music in acceptable sync with each > other. > > I attempted to compile 0.8.6 from source on OpenBSD 4.9 but gave up due > to all kinds of compilation errors. I've learned a couple of things > since then but would appreciate it if someone had any ideas, advice or > alternative solutions. > > The ideal solution would be to have version vlc-0.8.6i co-existing with > newer versions until the VideoLAN folks finally got netsync working. Who > do I have to ... pay to get such a thing done? > > Cheers, > Erling
