[vlc-devel] RE : RE : [PATCH] -- fullscreen enhancements

[brezhoneg1]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : vlc-devel-bounces at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-devel-
> bounces at videolan.org] De la part de Rémi Denis-Courmont
> Envoyé : lundi 2 février 2009 19:21
> À : vlc-devel at videolan.org
> Objet : Re: [vlc-devel] RE : [PATCH] -- fullscreen enhancements
> 
> Le lundi 2 février 2009 20:03:57 Jean-Baptiste Kempf, vous avez
écrit :
> > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:09:35PM +0100, brezhoneg1 wrote :
> > > This patch was originally aimed at proving width/height
restrictions
> > > should not be seen as a big problem. This patch can certainly be
> > > improved. Ideally, setting (the first time) and resetting (when
> reusing
> > > vout) should be mutualized. Yet, it is a working patch, and
hopefully
> I
> > > have not made wrong assumptions.
> > >
> > > My point is:
> > > - vlc1.0 will be a landmark in vlc history.
> > > - vlc1.0 has raised expectations that the transition problems will
be
> > > solved (see numerous posts and answers on the forum)
> >
> > I think you are right on this one.
> >
> > > For the sake of vlc, I really think working out this height/width
> > > limitation would avoid users complaining bitterly for what can
> honestly
> > > be considered a bug. (With vlc1.0, this will even be more annoying
> that
> > > users don't have in mind this limitation and will see it as an
erratic
> > > behavior)
> >
> >  From a user PoV, you are right.
> 
> Arguable. At this point, users expect to have 0.9 regressions. This
really
> looks like a new feature more than a bug to me.
> 
> > > Maybe, if someone with good knowledge of vout could react to it
> (fenrir,
> > > from what I was said ?).
> 
> I'm afraid no active commiters know the vout code well currently. At
least
> I
> don't, Laurent made the same claim, and Antoine gave some similar
hints in
> his few video output commits as well.
> 


What about the forefathers of vlc ..., if any of them is still reading
this email list, and would come up and bring their expertise.

I suppose you all feel proud of this Open source project and it is a
pity keeping such a recurrent bug? (at least unfortunate behavior) for
so long.

Erwan10