Wayland Support Starts Coming Together For VLC Media Player

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland Support Starts Coming Together For VLC Media Player

Users of the VLC multimedia player will be happy to know that the Wayland support is coming along for those wanting to abandon their X.Org Server...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgxNjE

[kenjitamura]

Good news indeed. Want to bring along VLC to my wayland setup when I finally make that move.

[Awesomeness]

I'm surprised. Last I checked the VLC developer responsible for video output under Linux said that nobody will need Wayland support as Ubuntu as allegedly most popular distribution won't support it.

[Daktyl198]

I'm surprised. Last I checked the VLC developer responsible for video output under Linux said that nobody will need Wayland support as Ubuntu as allegedly most popular distribution won't support it.

Huh, the last time I checked it, a dev said that they weren't going to do it because with how fucked up their video-output codebase actually is, it wouldn't be worth it.

I think it's cool that it's finally coming along, but I think I'll stick to MPV (which I personally believe is better, and has supported Wayland for a long time ). I even use MPV on Windows 8.1 haha

[blackout23]

Wouldn't they have to port VLC from Qt4 to Qt5 first?

[89c51]

Wouldn't they have to port VLC from Qt4 to Qt5 first?

They work on it AFAIK.

[Awesomeness]

Huh, the last time I checked it, a dev said that they weren't going to do it because with how fucked up their video-output codebase actually is, it wouldn't be worth it.

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/7936#comment:9

[pjezek]

In Arch OK

VLC is one of my often lauching app under Wayland/Weston. Videos, music and DVB-T works well enough.