Bug 489694

Summary:	phonon-vlc-0.12.0 fails to build against vlc 4.0.0-dev (vlc.git as of 2024-07-03): src/mediaplayer.h:140:5: error: ‘libvlc_track_description_t’ does not name a type; did you mean ‘libvlc_title_description_t’?
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] phonon-backend-vlc	Reporter:	Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	bcooksley, fabo, gerbilsoft, heiko.becker, jb, myriam, sitter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.12.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	media-libs:phonon-vlc-0.12.0-r1:20240703-185029.log Initial attempt to fix the VLC4 build.

Description Andreas Sturmlechner 2024-07-03 18:58:45 UTC

Created attachment 171342 [details]
media-libs:phonon-vlc-0.12.0-r1:20240703-185029.log

It may be a bit early, but phonon-vlc is the only remaining phonon backend and vlc-4 will be released at some point hopefully, being Qt6 based.

Attaching full build.log.

Comment 1 David Korth 2024-09-13 02:02:25 UTC

Created attachment 173607 [details]
Initial attempt to fix the VLC4 build.

I put together some quick hacks to get phonon-vlc to work with the current git version of VLC4.

Main differences:
* The old track API (which was in deprecated.h) is completely gone. The new tracklist API must be used instead.
* Several enum values were renamed and/or removed.

I'm not sure how to properly reimplement MediaPlayer::setSubtitle() or MediaPlayer::setAudioTrack() yet.

I'll submit this on the KDE GitLab instance later.