a) without the support or concent of the VLC admins, it wouldn't even get hosted
b) devs should be creating it. ZI also supports source code and autocompilation, even.
c) no
You're right, it is very hard, impossible in fact, to maintain packages for each Linux disiro and distro version. Hence, steps should be taken to utilize and fight for standards, so that software is actually free. No one likes to be left in the cold because they didn't go with distro XYZ. That's not...
This should be fixed now with VLC 2? I haven't tried it yet, but I'm assuming as long as you have the decoder libraries for encrypted BRs it will work now. Has anyone tried this?
What about releasing one package for all Linux distros? Having packages for so many distros is awesome, but a headache for developers and leaves users on any non-supported distros in the cold. Could always use http://0install.net/ ? Has automatic updates, creates menu shortcuts, works across distros...
Andrew Price is working on this for Google Summer of Code 2011, so depending on the speed he can implement it, VLC will have the support at least by August or September. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/messiahandrw/5001 http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2011-...
This feature would allow any type of monitor/TV to support all of the types of 3D that VLC supported, which could be any type. However, this is something that is being built into a lot of monitors/TVs now, so eventually this problem will mostly solve itself, however not for a long time. Having this ...