Re: [Libreoffice-commits] core.git: avmedia/source

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 01:15:53PM -0700, Minh Ngo wrote:
>  avmedia/source/vlc/vlcmanager.cxx           |    8 +++-----
>  avmedia/source/vlc/wrapper/SymbolLoader.hxx |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> New commits:
> commit bd8f84ceb36954496fd9f053436b0c4a8a5c38db
> Author: Minh Ngo <nlminhtl@gmail.com>
> Date:   Sun Sep 15 23:13:19 2013 +0300
>
>     Avmedia/VLC: Falling back to gstreamer if libvlc is not found.
>     
>     Change-Id: I8d4e3cded0fc8c26a27505b5d51806bbcdeecc93

I think this is bad. If I say vlc I want vlc. You don't (especially with
dynamic loading) not fall back to something other (which might not even exist[1])

> --- a/avmedia/source/vlc/wrapper/SymbolLoader.hxx
> +++ b/avmedia/source/vlc/wrapper/SymbolLoader.hxx
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ struct ApiMap
>  namespace
>  {
>  #if defined( UNX )
> -    const char LibName[] = "libvlc.so.5";
> +    const char LibName[] = "libvlc.so";
>  #elif defined( MACOSX )
>      const char LibName[] = "/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/libvlc.dylib";
>  #elif defined( WNT )

This

a) is not mentioned in the commit message
b) will make vlc not work on almost all Linux systems as they weill have libvlc installed but
   not "libvlc.so" which is usually in the development package (Debian: libvlc-dev) instead of
   the library package (libvlc5). Thus you really want to load based on the correct SONAME...[2]
   No idea on Mac OS, probably VLC will install everything, so it wouldn't matter much, but...

Regards,

Rene

[1] From 3.2 on I have libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer and -avmedia-backend-vlc
packages and the admin can choose.
That also means that the first one might not even be installed
[2] Which I'd add as a local patch anyways if this is not reverted