Bug#983250: vlc: Crash when starting to play video under weston / wayland
On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 20:08:05 +0200 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net>
wrote:
> > Wayland support is spposed to be better with the upcoming vlc 4.0. No
> > idea when that version will be released, though.
>
> Basic playback should work. The crash looks like a problem within EGL, so
> not clear why you flag this as an upstream bug.
In this case, it seems to be a bug in the VLC Qt Wayland support which is
notoriously broken. To be fair, the VLC 3.0 configure script does state:
"Incomplete Wayland support (default disabled)"
It was probably not a good idea to enable it in Debian. VLC 3 should be used
through XWayland.
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