vlc/vlc-nox distinction

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2014-08-17 23:22:02, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> On 16 Aug, Reinhard Tartler wrote :
> > I believe that upstream doesn't care that much about this, because
> 
> I remember the idea.
> 
> Basically, the idea was to split so that servers using VLC to do
> streaming wouldn't need libX11 and all the rest.
> 
> > otherwise I'd expect the Makefiles to be a bit more helpful with
> > determining this. J-B, I'd like you to confirm if I'm right here.
> 
> This idea indeed failed, because libavcodec, one of the main codec
> library, can depend on vdpau/vaapi, and both of those acceleration
> libraries thought it was cool to use libX11...
> Therefore, a vlc-noX wouldn't have avcodec plugin...
> 
> Some other distributions split the VLC free-stack (Xiph formats)
> from the rest, for patent reasons.
> 
> For 3rd party programs using libvlc, an idea was to do a vlc-plugins
> splitted from vlc, so that they don't get libQt in.
> So, something like:
>  - libvlccore
>  - libvlc
>  - vlc-core-plugins
>  - vlc

I'll see if I can come up with something here and prototype a possible
split. As soon as I've got something, I'll post a link to a branch.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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