Bug#770138: vlc is built without oss support

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Sebastian Ramacher (2014-12-10 17:24:16)
> On 2014-11-19 05:45:28, HJ wrote:
>> It's impossible to get any sound from vlc since it was build without 
>> oss support(--enable-oss)--> makes the whole package unusable/broken 
>> on oss4
>
> oss support was disabled because the oss module failed to build in one 
> of the preX versions of 2.2.0. Also, provided that I remember 
> upstream's position correctly, oss on Linux is currently unmaintained. 
> Until that changes, we won't enable the oss module on Linux.

Please reconsider: What was unclear in the original bugreport is that 
oss4 is (mainly, if not solely) for non-Linux architectures.

If enabling OSS support cause VLC to become unstable, then I suggest to 
enable it only on non-Linux archs, by the argument that unstable VLC is 
better than totally silent VLC on those archs.


Regards,

 - Jonas

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