[vlc-devel] VLC Qt interface redesign and help compiling VLC media player

[Mohit Marathe]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 at 2:56 AM, Aakarsh MJ <mj.akarsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I have gone through the details regarding the same available on wiki for
> GSoC. I have some question regarding this:
> 1) Can someone share the new designs that have been referenced for the
> redesign.
>

The project description in the wiki has been unchanged for past few years.
So the “designs” mentioned there has already been implemented.


> 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.
>

You can find him on IRC, his username is “chub”.
You can also mail him at pierre at videolabs.io


> 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.
> * 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
> * I did that and am getting the following error:
> ```
> Initialized empty Git repository in
> /home/aakarsh-gram/vlc/contrib/tarballs/glslang-ef1f899b5d64a9628023f1bb129198674cba2b97/
> fatal: couldn't find remote ref master
> make: *** [../src/glslang/rules.mak:13:
> ../tarballs/glslang-ef1f899b5d64a9628023f1bb129198674cba2b97.tar.xz] Error
> 128
>
> ```
>

Did you use gitlab’s link for cloning? As the wiki is quite old, the link
mentioned there will not work.

Thanks


>
> Thanks for your time and consideration,
> Sincerely
>
> Aakarsh MJ
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