On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:34:45 -0700
"William Morder via trinity-users"
<trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
Well, so I got it going again, at least operable. I am
a hoarder, and in one
of my hoards I found some old configuration files for VLC that preserve my
settings. I still have some problems playing anything directly from a saved
iso, as well as some vobs and mpegs. I checked this with an iso that I
created myself (so nothing weird to interfere with playback), and I still
have problems with some of them. This doesn't seem right.
After getting rid of any lingering KDE4/5 files, I
suddenly realized that VLC
had been using KDE theme settings, rather than my TDE settings. (When I first
installed Debian, I used a DVD that had made KDE5 one of the default choices,
so I had to configure KDE Plasma before I could get TDE to work. Now I have
got rid of KDE, but it seems not quite.)
VLC has over a hundred (!) compile-time flags governing different features,
and an equally complex dependency tree. Your distro probably flipped a
couple of things from "off" to "on", or vice-versa. The KDE5 theme
stuff is
probably being pulled in by the QT5 support, at a guess. In addition, VLC
can pull in ffmpeg, which has its own huge assortment of flags that may have
been flipped.
(VLC has one of the most terrifying ebuilds I have ever seen. Now I
remember why I stick to mplayer. It saves the terror for its man page.)
E. Liddell
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