Bug 21161

Summary:	vlc-plugin-projectm doesn't work
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Sullivan <davizion>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Shlomi Fish <shlomif>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	eeeemail, fri, lists.jjorge, marja11, saptech
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	vlc	CVE:
Status comment:

Description David Sullivan 2017-06-29 12:52:54 CEST

Description of problem:
Doesn't seem top work

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open VLC
2. Open music
3. in audio change to projectm

Comment 1 Stephen Pettin 2017-06-29 15:03:38 CEST

I can confirm the vlc-plugin-projectm audio visualizer is not working for me either. After installing it, it show in the visual window but doesn't do anything. All the ones that come with vlc by default do work.

CC: (none) => saptech

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2017-06-29 23:35:12 CEST

Assigning to the registered maintainer, CC'ing zézinho.

CC: (none) => lists.jjorge, marja11
Summary: projectm => vlc-plugin-projectmprojectm doesn't work
Assignee: bugsquad => shlomif
Source RPM: projectm => vlc

Marja Van Waes 2017-06-29 23:42:30 CEST

Summary: vlc-plugin-projectmprojectm doesn't work => vlc-plugin-projectm doesn't work

Comment 3 Shlomi Fish 2017-07-04 19:40:11 CEST

I can reproduce this problem here, but:

1. vlc 3.0 built from source crashes after running projectm.

2. I get crashes on fedora 26 x86-64 too.

It seems like an upstream problem.

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 4 Shlomi Fish 2017-07-12 11:22:59 CEST

Hi all,

(In reply to Shlomi Fish from comment #3)
> I can reproduce this problem here, but:
> 
> 1. vlc 3.0 built from source crashes after running projectm.
> 
> 2. I get crashes on fedora 26 x86-64 too.
> 
> It seems like an upstream problem.

some of the things I discovered in further investigation:

1. vlc-2.2.6 from source installed under a prefix with an old ffmpeg (v2.8.x), does not display the projectM graphics, but does not crash.

2. Old versions on the vlc-git going back to this commit:

commit e2fcd5b929fb3f702615d93c2b3c2364e433074b
Author: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net>
Date:   Sun Jun 14 18:01:32 2015 +0300

    include: remove vain evil macro

    This confused Doxygen and hid hypothetically invalid casts.

segfault when trying to enable projectM.

3. This version:

commit 28c484c277369dc14e2bffd2bee846765839e654
Author: Julian Scheel <julian@jusst.de>
Date:   Thu Oct 9 12:08:56 2014 +0200

    mmal/vout: Configure latency target

does not crash but also displays nothing.

4. Building projectM from source after some tweaks to the build system, makes projectM-pulseaudio run fine but VLC does not display using it either.

5. On Debian stretch the projectM plugin is not available for VLC, so I could not test there.

Comment 5 claire robinson 2019-11-30 00:33:49 CET

confirmed in mga7 64

CC: (none) => eeeemail

Comment 6 Morgan Leijström 2021-03-14 23:42:21 CET

Does it work OK now on Mageia 7 or 8?

CC: (none) => fri