[vlc-devel] Default video output for Linux/Ubuntu

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:46:43 -0700 (PDT), Tony Anecito
<adanecito at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Right now I will go back to 1.0.6 for windows and find 1.0.5 or 1.0.6
so's
> somewhere I can package for distribution. There is a newer version of
> ubuntu coming out soon and I will see what they have available for vlc
> download. I did find a site that claimed to have 1.0.5 vlc for Ubuntu but
> when I downloaded it turned out to be the source and not a build with the
> so's.

I think you're wasting your time. Libvlc 1.0 has many known bugs, some of
which deadlock or crash. Most importantly there is a known deadlock case
when stopping playback (which pretty much every app does).

And then, if people keep on using the previous version, we never get wide
testing for the current version, so we never get to fix it.

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