svn commit: r331964 - head/multimedia/vlc

[David Chisnall]

On 30 Oct 2013, at 05:57, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 03:55:30PM +0000, William Grzybowski wrote:
>> New Revision: 331964
>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/331964
>> 
>>  - Disable OSS (it is broken in vlc 2.1.0 and FreeBSD #9760)
>>  - Use pulse audio
> 
> This makes VLC officially broken on FreeBSD.  While I only use VLC on
> non-Unix platform (mplayer satifies my needs better elsewhere), it is
> sad to see another popular player to go. :(
> 
> Are there changes to fix OSS problems (and move PA back to OPTIONS,
> where it belongs)?

I agree, this seems very unfortunate.  OSS works out of the box and provides a trivial API that does everything that VLC needs with low latency.  PulesAudio... doesn't.  What was broken with OSS upstream?  

David