[vlc-devel] Using VLC 4.0.0 on WSL2 Ubuntu 25.04 with wayland

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 23 juin 2025 16:22:32 GMT+03:00, "Fatih Uzunoğlu" <fuzun54 at outlook.com> a écrit :
>As I said, I'm willing to not use viewporter in the interface, but what is the alternative at the moment?

Who said you shouldn't use the viewporter for the interface? You just can't instantiate it for the video surface.

VLC doesn't support fractional video window dimensions anyway, because that would be totally overkill.

>> No, you just made that up. Can you even point to a precedent for that bold misleading claim?
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>There is no guarantee that window embedding must be possible with all cases. I remember the `EGL_KHR_display_reference` case for example, which was a requirement for embedding.

You're comparing apples and oranges. Obviously if a given display method isn't supported on a given server, then it can't work. That's a server/driver restriction, not a provider restriction.

And SHM is supposed to be the one module that works on *any* display server.

>There can be a variety of configuration that can potentially make embedding impossible.

If embedding is not possible then you can't provide an embedded window. You don't get to provide a partially working partially crashing backend.