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  • BB_C@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Reassessing Wayland
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    22 days ago

    Is there a tiling Wayland compositor out there that supports applying custom shaders to windows (similar to picom)? This has been a known limitation for many years. And I brought it up myself with a couple of compositors’ developers, and they told me that it would break direct scan-out, and I told them that I would be fine with that, and then discussions fizzled out.

    I also tried an x11vnc alternative I don’t remember the name of, and besides the generally buggy experience, it completely broke when power management kicked on the sever side (turning off the monitor IIRC). So that’s another show stopper, although maybe not as relevant as custom shader support which I need for applying my custom color inversion shaders to specific windows, otherwise, my vision would go bad quickly.

    So yeah, I will be sticking with my Awesome WM (+picom +x11vnc) setup for a while too.

  • BB_C@programming.devtoOpensource@programming.dev•VLC tops 6 billion downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles
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    2 months ago

    installed on a lot of Linux systems.

    Fake info. It would be fake too if you made the opposite claim. Because such info is simply not available.

    VLC being an MPlayer clone with better branding has been a running half-joke for decades.

    The latest released version of VLC is not compatible with ffmpeg versions > 4.4 🤗. Some distros have actually considered dropping the package for that reason. Maybe some did, I don’t know. But if the situation doesn’t change, some definitely will.

    And VLC 4, which those who still care for some reason have been waiting for it to be released for years, is centered around libplacebo, a library that was factored out of mpv 😎 .

    I’m not emotionally charged against VLC or anything. In fact, I occasionally use it on Android. But what’s stated above is just facts.