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vlc: Add chromecast support; libmicrodns: Init at 0.0.10 #58588

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@shazow shazow commented Mar 30, 2019 •
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Motivation for this change

VLC normally ships with Chromecast support enabled by default, in the official binaries as well as in other distros (arch, ubuntu, possibly others).

Chromecast support for VLC has been requested on several occasions (#35124 (comment), #58365 from me, and a bunch of times on IRC).

This PR adds libmicrodns which is a library written by the VLC team that is required for their Chromecast streaming to function.

It also adds Chromecast support to the VLC build enabled by default, but can be overridden.

Fixes #58365.

This is my first nixpkgs contribution, please be gentle. 😊

Some notes/questions:

  • I'm not sure if this is a strict requirement, but enabling hardware acceleration is important for transcoding especially: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Accelerated_Video_Playback - I needed to add intel-media-driver to get libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1 errors to stop. Not sure what's a more generalized solution. Is there a good place to document this? (Otherwise VLC spits out a bunch of errors, might fall back or not)
  • Port 8010 must be open (streaming works by creating a temporary HTTP server on port 8010 which streams the transcoded video, then points the Chromecast to open that local URL). Any suggestions for documenting/enforcing this?
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Also related: #53184

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shazow commented Mar 30, 2019

@infinisil Good call, this PR should obsolete #35184, and it also makes scanning/autodetecting work properly (needed libmicrodns).

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flokli commented Mar 30, 2019

Port 8010 must be open (streaming works by creating a temporary HTTP server on port 8010 which streams the transcoded video, then points the Chromecast to open that local URL). Any suggestions for documenting/enforcing this?

I'd drop a short comment somewhere in the vlc derivation, and add a longer <para> inside nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml, "Other Notable Changes", noting VLC gained Chromecast support, suggesting to set networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [8010].

Does VLC document that port somehwere obvious inside their documentation?

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@shazow you might want to add protoc to both buildInputs and nativeBuildInputs, see #53184 (comment).

I looked around - protoc is used during build to generate cpp code and headers out of the modules/stream_out/chromecast/cast_channel.proto, but later on, is dynamically linked against libprotobuf-lite.so.17 - which would need to be the one for whatever destination architecture this runs on.

protobuf seems to have a --with-protoc= configure option that allows to specify a native protoc binary when cross-compiling, and it looks like since #48450 we already make use of that.

So my guess would be that we only need protobuf in buildInputs, but I'd be glad to get some feedback from somebody a bit more familiar with that.

/cc @ryan4729, @dtzWill @Mic92.

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libmicrodns: init at 0.0.10
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Required for Chromecast support by VLC.
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Pushed squashed changes.

What's the easiest way to verify that the release notes are rendered properly? (make inside the nix-shell of the docs dir passes OK.)

@GrahamcOfBorg GrahamcOfBorg added 6.topic: nixos Issues or PRs affecting NixOS modules, or package usability issues specific to NixOS 8.has: changelog 8.has: documentation This PR adds or changes documentation labels Mar 31, 2019
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flokli commented Mar 31, 2019

@shazow from your checkout:

⇒  nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux
⇒  cd result
⇒  python3 -m http.server

Access http://localhost:8000/share/doc/nixos/release-notes.html#sec-release-19.09-notable-changes in your browser

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shazow commented Mar 31, 2019

@flokli Ah thank you!

Alright, pushed some more minor edits, should be good for another look:

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minor nitpick, apart from that, LGTM!

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ryantm commented Apr 1, 2019

@GrahamcOfBorg build vlc

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vlc: add chromecastSupport option
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Enables Chromecast support by default in VLC.

Fixes NixOS#58365.

Includes release note.
@flokli flokli merged commit 8313a5d into NixOS:master Apr 1, 2019
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