[vlc-devel] Releasing 3.0.12

[Thomas Guillem]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020, at 12:08, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are 2 distinct problems here:
> 
> 1) GL drivers don't handle the case that the window is destroyed behind their back
> Mesa GL locks up. NVIDIA GL crashes/aborts. This is a well-known limitation that we've been seeing with the XCB window provider for a decade. I don't think it's in scope of 3.x-stable to address.

Intel GPU here, it deadlocks. It make the issue even more critical, since the user is not able to play any more files, except if he spawns a terminal and killall -9 vlc.

> 
> I don't even know if it's an actual bug in the GL drivers, in the sense that I don't know what the GL specifications require.
> 
> 2) The Qt GUI destroys the video window before WindowClose(), or at least it seems to (I cannot explain the symptoms in any other way). This seems like a new problem. This is most likely not a Mesa bug.
> 
> Le 15 octobre 2020 12:29:26 GMT+03:00, Thomas Guillem <thomas at gllm.fr> a écrit :
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, at 18:18, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>>> Le lauantaina 10. lokakuuta 2020, 10.16.13 EEST Felix Paul Kühne a écrit :
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> On Tuesday, there will be a press conference that is likely to announce the
>>>> release (date) of macOS 11.
>>>> 
>>>> Marvin and me did some specific fixes for this operating system version so
>>>> we would like to release an updated version of VLC.
>>>> 
>>>> Seeing that we have some minor security patches pending and that it would be
>>>> nice to release some YouTube lua script, UPnP and HLS improvements, I’d
>>>> propose a general release for all the OS.
>>>> 
>>>> Is anyone against? If yes, why?
>>> Qt/X11 is still broken.
>>> 
>>> (And it won't be backportable since the code no longer exists in VLC 4.) 
>> 
>> cf. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/116
>> 
>> So, if there is a fix in mesa, it will need a new API, so we can say that we should instead find a hack in VLC 3.0 to work around this issue.
>> 
>> I can't reproduce it on my desktop at work but I can easily reproduce it at home. I will check tomorrow.
>> 
>> 
>> > 
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