vlc <3.0 broken on linux

[blaenk]

If anyone else is running vlc <3.0 on linux with no problems on RC4 or later, please let us know.

It seems like 401e08a was an effort to achieve vlc 3 compatibility but it seems to have been at the expense of vlc 2.x. Particularly in lineReceived() of players/vlc.py, having constants.VLC_LISTEN_FOR_STDOUT not True causes syncplay to give a "Failed to connect to VLC" error. When I set that constant to True everything seems to work perfectly.

[Et0h]

I'm hoping the recent commits to the 1.4.x Syncplay branch will resolve the various VLC issues, but I've only tested it on Windows. If Linux and *BSD users can test the Syncplay 1.4.x branch GIT HEAD with VLC 2.2.4 and VLC 3.x and let me know how it goes that'd be useful.

[blaenk]

Confirmed working on linux with vlc 2.x.

[Et0h]

Thanks for the confirmation