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Showtime replaces Totem as default video player (gitlab.gnome.org)
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[–] original_reader@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I love the Showtime player

Just a bit thin on features...

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Showtime rn: Showtime!

[–] chonkyninja@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But did they fix the crap ass dependencies that cause the video offloading to break? Seriously doubt it.

Let me be more explicit, they were using Cairo and within Cairo there’s a few lines of code to set which library to use for offloading of rendering. It breaks because they fucking hardcoded some shit up in there and when you use environment variables to offload they ignore them.

And yes, it was reported, and confirmed as a bug, in 2019.