Modern VLC for PowerPC (it builds and runs, but video output needs fix-ups)

[barracuda156]

Look, FreeBSD still builds VLC 3.0.18 for ppc (32-bit!): https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/main/multimedia/vlc/Makefile
That may be untested, however it looks like that all claims re VLC dropping support for ppc and/or 32-bit are false. What may indeed be broken (and very likely is) is Obj C code in MacOS-specific modules. But those can be turned off.

I will see if 2.2.8 builds; if it does and appears functional, I will try with 3.x.

P. S. It looks like 3.x uses Qt5 for something, which is a problem on PowerPC. That might be fixable, or turned off, or otherwise we will need to use the last version to support Qt4.

 

[TheShortTimer]

Thanks for investigating this and the possibilities.

 

[barracuda156]

Thanks for investigating this and the possibilities.

It takes quite a while since I need to rebuild multiple times, but so far it seems that errors are rather trivial and partly caused by wrong patches and/or settings (who could have thought). Unless something turns out to be horribly broken in a later part of the build, I may complete the thing today itself.
No idea what I get in result though
I disabled quartz and qtkit, but enabled x11 and qt4. (This may not work with existing destroot setup; so once the build, hopefully, completes, portfile may need more work to fix destroot stage.)

 

[Ryan Bremer]

vlc 2.1 is guaranteed to work on powerpc macs because this version is used in vlc preview builds (still exists btw, as vlc 4.0), see https://web.archive.org/web/20120210064722/http://nightlies.videolan.org:80/build/macosx/?C=M;O=D (link to download doesnt work, it's just to showcase that it existed at some point)

 

[barracuda156]

vlc 2.1 is guaranteed to work on powerpc macs because this version is used in vlc preview builds (still exists btw, as vlc 4.0), see https://web.archive.org/web/20120210064722/http://nightlies.videolan.org:80/build/macosx/?C=M;O=D (link to download doesnt work, it's just to showcase that it existed at some point)

Surprising that no one saved that

Anyway, I have built 2.2.8, but expectedly destroot is broken. I will need to rewrite it.

 

[barracuda156]

Okay, I got it built and running.
GUI is functional with minor glitches.
Audio works perfectly.
Video – I cannot check native OpenGL right now, since my ATI card has no hardware acceleration in 10.6, but x11 is weird: it plays, but gets everything wrong as if under drugs LOL

UPD. Does anyone know how specifically the video output is handled via different interfaces? We need to do some debugging, it seems.

 

[B S Magnet]

Okay, I got it built and running.
GUI is functional with minor glitches.
Audio works perfectly.
Video – I cannot check native OpenGL right now, since my ATI card has no hardware acceleration in 10.6, but x11 is weird: it plays, but gets everything wrong as if under drugs LOL

Nice work!

I’d love to test a binary once you’ve got all the quirks ironed out.

 

[barracuda156]

To illustrate what I mean re X11, this is supposed to be a normal music video:

 

[barracuda156]

There are some chances that what is broken is the new Mesa and/or x11. Then rebuilding against the old ones may help. I will try it.

 

[barracuda156]

Nice work!

I’d love to test a binary once you’ve got all the quirks ironed out.

> all the quirks ironed out

I like your optimism

 

[TheShortTimer]

I’d love to test a binary once you’ve got all the quirks ironed out.

Same here!

I like your optimism

We believe in you.

 

[AphoticD]

To illustrate what I mean re X11, this is supposed to be a normal music video:
View attachment 2241639

The video output weirdness looks like it could be endianness-related.

Step through the video output module source looking for big endian logic / defines.

 

[schorschinjo]

The video output weirdness looks like it could be endianness-related.

From my memory dating back to days 10-20 years ago, when I fumbled with video decoding, AFAIR, video looked like that, when in YUV video, U and V were mixed. So I second [B]AphoticD[/B]'s theory.