vlc accessibility intolerant default pkg options
stevenholland at iprimus.com.au
stevenholland at iprimus.com.au
Tue Sep 1 01:43:27 UTC 2020
Hello maintainer for the vlc FreeBSD pkg...
I like vlc media player - but the default options in FreeBSD pkgs are
without ass/ssa subtitle support.
Not so in MS Windows.
I'm using GhostBSD distro.
Q. As a matter privilege, shouldn't pkgs, where possible, default to be
inclusive of all accessibility tools?
Q. Are there guidelines for authoring FreeBSD pkgs concerning
accessibility support generally?
Q. Are you able to change the default compile option to true for
ass/ssa? Then GhostBSD team would make the pkg binaries with this
setting.
In the mean time I'm porting the pkg and editing the Makefile to compile
the pkg locally to assist those that require ssa subtitles support.
Note: The ass/ssa [substation alpha] formats allow for coloured
subtitles to indicate who who is saying what in the video.
Kind regards,
Steve
Extract from vlc pkg info showing ASS = off:
vlc-3.0.11_3,4
Name : vlc
Version : 3.0.11_3,4
Installed on : Tue Sep 1 08:54:16 2020 AEST
Origin : multimedia/vlc
Architecture : FreeBSD:12:amd64
Prefix : /usr/local
Categories : multimedia net audio www
Licenses : GPLv2
Maintainer : multimedia at FreeBSD.org
WWW : https://www.videolan.org
Comment : Qt based multimedia player and streaming server
Options :
A52 : off
AALIB : off
AOM : off
ASS : off
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