Comment Re:How well does XWayland work? (Score 1) 340
Yes. I've hacked aroud(sic) in xlib a lot.
Splendid - then I won't need to copy-paste some of the problems regarding right click menus locking the server and similar issues documented elsewhere - right? The X developers that have moved over to developing Wayland have explained these issues far better than I can.
Would you be kind enough to acknowledge these problems exist?
I get the feeling that people have invested so much energy and effort in X that they're reluctant to acknowledge the problems even exist. It's like some kind of programming Stockholm Syndrome.
I started recording live TV on a Linux box in 2003. I never had problems. What were you trying to make?
A simple application capturing part of the desktop plus a live video feed with V4L and synchronised audio capture.
I started with just trying to capture the desktop + audio. Using either direct ALSA, pulseaudio or jack I would get scheduling issues and dropped X11 frames and/or audio underflow sometimes skipping multiple screen capture frames at once. Once I saw the problems programmatically I tried using the raw ffmpeg binary which exhibited the exact same issues either under a regular or realtime kernel. I did try with a recent compiled version, too.
We are getting way off topic with this discussion however. I feel my original premise (OSX is not behind X in terms of functionality or libraries) still stands.