Create vlc-3.0.0

[anupam-git]

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[probonopd]

Hi @anupam-git thanks for your PR. I am not entirely sure what is going on here, but I suspect that VLC is being launched without a GUI:

VLC media player 3.0.0 Vetinari (revision 3.0.0-30-gef4c265336)
Parent is shutting down, bye...
AppImage unmounted
NUMBER_OF_WINDOWS: 0
ERROR: Could not find a single window on screen :-(

Can you modify the AppImage so that GUI is launched at all times? (E.g., qvlc rather than vlc?)

[anupam-git]

@probonopd
Running the qt interface by default will affect the way vlc command works.
vlc chooses the interface automatically.

So running vlc.AppImage -Iqt will run the QT Interface for all cases but for users who would want to run vlc from shell will not be able to use the appimage..

Isn't there any other approach to fix this ??

[probonopd]

vlc chooses the interface automatically.

Do you know how this works?

[anupam-git]

No.. Let me try to find it out..

[anupam-git]

https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/bin/vlc.c#L232
Seems that is being done by libvlc, and not vlc

https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/694399e23000232708b2d514a6a265cfc023ddde/src/interface/interface.c#L212
From here it is clear that if no interface is passed as argument then "default" interface is ran which in turn falls back to supported interface if default fails.

And if any specific interface is passed, it does not run the "default" interface(because of the NULL check) if that specified interface fails..

[anupam-git]

Also found out that on linux, QT is the default interface and in mac macosx is the default interface

[probonopd]

Do you have any idea why the Qt interface is apparently not being run in our CI test? Is there a way to enforce Qt to be used?

[anupam-git]

No idea regarding that.. What I can do is that I can manually run the tests you are running to debug the error..

[probonopd]

Does anyone know how VLC decides when to use Qt?

[anupam-git]

VLC Runs the default interface everytime it is ran..
If the default interface fails, then a fallback interface is ran which is the CLI interface..

In case of linux the default interface is QT..