<div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 at 2:56 AM, Aakarsh MJ <<a href="mailto:mj.akarsh@gmail.com" target="_blank">mj.akarsh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">HI everyone, My name is Aakarsh MJ. I am sorry if this is not the right platform to ask questions regarding compilation and discussing gsoc idea, I tried asking the same on irc previously but got no reply.<br><br>I am looking forward to contributing to issues related to "VLC Qt interface redesign" for this year's gsoc and become an active member in the long run since I use vlc media player. I have prior experience with Qt and C++. I am an active KDE contributor contributing majorly to Merkuro(formerly Kalendar) and KDE Eco. <br><br>I have gone through the details regarding the same available on wiki for GSoC. I have some question regarding this:<br>1) Can someone share the new designs that have been referenced for the redesign.</div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div dir="auto">The project description in the wiki has been unchanged for past few years. So the “designs” mentioned there has already been implemented.</div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br>2) If it's okay, can I get information about the preferred way to get in touch with the mentor Pierre so I could further understand and discuss in detail the said idea.</div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div dir="auto">You can find him on IRC, his username is “chub”.</div></div></div><div dir="auto">You can also mail him at <a href="mailto:pierre@videolabs.io" target="_blank">pierre@videolabs.io</a></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br>3) I was trying to compile vlc but ran into some issues, irc was helpful in understanding partly why it was not working but I still need some help regarding this.<br>* Initially on following the preferred method I ran into some issues, on sharing the error it was suggested that I use contrib method since the version that I was trying to compile depended on ffmpeg's old version<br>* I did that and am getting the following error:<br>```<br>Initialized empty Git repository in /home/aakarsh-gram/vlc/contrib/tarballs/glslang-ef1f899b5d64a9628023f1bb129198674cba2b97/<br>fatal: couldn't find remote ref master<br>make: *** [../src/glslang/rules.mak:13: ../tarballs/glslang-ef1f899b5d64a9628023f1bb129198674cba2b97.tar.xz] Error 128<br><br>```</div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div dir="auto">Did you use gitlab’s link for cloning? As the wiki is quite old, the link mentioned there will not work.</div></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks</div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><br>Thanks for your time and consideration,<br>Sincerely</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Aakarsh MJ</div>
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