[www-doc] VLMC is dead

[Rohit Yadav]

Hey Hugo!

Hope you're in good health.

Yes, let's put the word out there using the amended diff. If you're
going to force yourself in restarting this project I would like to
help you out and contribute during weekends. The first thing if you
can help would be to fix the vout and aout issues using latest libvlc
across platforms, the contribs of which I'll update soon :)

Cheers.

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen
<beauze.h at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Rohit Yadav <rohityadav89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi funman!
>>
>> Good to hear from you after a very long time.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> VLMC has been unmaintained for a while now, let's make that official.
>>
>> Sure, let's make it official on the website that it's not maintained anymore.
>>
>> Speaking for myself, I think I'll have this guilt for a very long time
>> that I failed to invest more time and energy on this project and also
>> due to my day job requirements after my graduation from engineering
>> school. For a while I tried to work on it but due to a lot of api
>> changes in libvlc and my failure to understand and use the aout and
>> vout modules in VLMC led me to abandon development on the project.
>>
>> The last update I followed was from Hugo who able to make the
>> vout/display work on Linux which I failed to do so on my Linux distro,
>> OSX and windows all together after that I stopped working on it.
>> Anyway I hope some parts of the codebase may be useful for others as a
>> reference on how and how not to implement stuff :)
>>
>> I hope to meet you all some day in future and work in future on other
>> interesting things. Best of luck to the ol' VLMC team.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rohit Yadav
>>
>>>
>>> This will avoid people spending time on translations and people making
>>> donations to get access to some secret download area.
>>>
>>> Not sure how they got that last idea but it happened more than once.
>
> Hi Raf', Rohit, and others,
>
> I agree that it should be known that the project is not the exact
> definition of "alive" :(
> That being said, I'm currently forcing myself to start this project
> again. I'm not saying it will be kicking Final Cut's ass in 2 weeks,
> but at least it moves again. Slightly.
> Therefor, as much as I agree we should let people know that it's dead,
> I'd rather not bury it too deep, and would like to amend the diff as
> such:
> -This project is not maintained anymore.
> +This project is currently unmaintained.
>
> Thanks for raising this, as much as I hate it to be a true fact.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen