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Installing the libplacebo-git package fixed the missing pl_filter_haasnsoft filter issue for me Thanks to andrewSC for pointing that out

Can't build:

/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-dialog.o: in function `vlclua_create_widget_inner':
dialog.c:(.text+0xc3d): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-dialog.o: in function `vlclua_dialog_create':
dialog.c:(.text+0x1550): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-net.o: in function `vlclua_net_listen_tcp':
net.c:(.text+0xdfa): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-httpd.o: in function `vlclua_httpd_redirect_new':
httpd.c:(.text+0x94): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-httpd.o: in function `vlclua_httpd_tls_host_new':
httpd.c:(.text+0x6fa): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-httpd.o:httpd.c:(.text+0x98e): more undefined references to `lua_newuserdata' follow
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-strings.o: in function `vlclua_convert_xml_special_chars':
strings.c:(.text+0x2f0): undefined reference to `lua_remove'
/usr/bin/ld: strings.c:(.text+0x35c): undefined reference to `lua_remove'
/usr/bin/ld: strings.c:(.text+0x39e): undefined reference to `lua_remove'
/usr/bin/ld: strings.c:(.text+0x3e0): undefined reference to `lua_remove'
/usr/bin/ld: strings.c:(.text+0x42b): undefined reference to `lua_remove'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-strings.o:strings.c:(.text+0x46a): more undefined references to `lua_remove' follow
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-vlm.o: in function `vlclua_vlm_new':
vlm.c:(.text+0x22a): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-xml.o: in function `vlclua_xml_create':
xml.c:(.text+0xc): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-xml.o: in function `vlclua_xml_create_reader':
xml.c:(.text+0xcb): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-io.o: in function `vlclua_io_open':
io.c:(.text+0x113): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-renderers.o: in function `vlclua_rd_create':
renderers.c:(.text+0x1b): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
  CCLD     libwl_idle_inhibit_plugin.la
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [Makefile:17766: liblua_plugin.la] Error 1
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[4]: Leaving directory '/tmp/vlc-git/src/vlc/modules'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:34272: all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/vlc-git/src/vlc/modules'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:14328: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/vlc-git/src/vlc/modules'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1587: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/vlc-git/src/vlc'
make: *** [Makefile:1474: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

Indeed, the ffmpeg-git conflict comes from chromaprint. It has to be replaced by chromaprint-fftw.

Reason why I wanted to install ffmpeg-git: The ffmpeg packages in the official repository come without support for vaapi and vdpau - in order to have this support enabled, ffmpeg has to be compiled with

--enable-vaapi
--enable-vdpau
--enable-hwaccel=h264_vdpau
--enable-postproc

(Sources: https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_VAAPI/ and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23289157/how-to-use-hardware-acceleration-with-ffmpeg)

With the standard ffmpeg package, VLC has problems using vdpau:

[h264 @ 0x7fd158012240] Failed setup for format vdpau: hwaccel initialisation returned error.

Furthermore, AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_VLD is deprecated (source: ffmpeg documentation, APICHANGES):

2015-08-19 - 9f8e57ef - lavu 54.31.100 - pixfmt.h
  Add a unique pixel format for VA-API (AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI) that
  indicates the nature of the underlying storage: a VA surface. This
  yields the same value as AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_VLD.
  Deprecate old VA-API related pixel formats: AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_MOCO,
  AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_IDCT, AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_VLD.

Hence, it might make sense to apply this change to the VLC sources:

find . \( -type d -name .c -prune \) -o -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's|AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_VLD|AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI|g'

Why does this package conflict with ffmpeg-git?

It.. doesn't? Where do you see the conflict explicitly? The PKGBUILD doesn't explicitly list a conflicts with ffmpeg-git.

Fails to compile

I was able to compile 03674aee047f5b9e41d6f267592f79c7790326b1 in a chroot, following the instructions I provided, without issue. Given the pathing of the error message i'm suspicious if it's not an out-of-date dep on your system.

Fails to compile:

/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-dialog.o: in function `vlclua_create_widget_inner':
dialog.c:(.text+0xc2d): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-dialog.o: in function `vlclua_dialog_create':
dialog.c:(.text+0x1538): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-net.o: in function `vlclua_net_listen_tcp':
net.c:(.text+0xd6a): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-httpd.o: in function `vlclua_httpd_redirect_new':
httpd.c:(.text+0x90): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-httpd.o: in function `vlclua_httpd_tls_host_new':
httpd.c:(.text+0x6ba): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-httpd.o:httpd.c:(.text+0x94e): more undefined references to `lua_newuserdata' follow
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-strings.o: in function `vlclua_convert_xml_special_chars':
strings.c:(.text+0x2dc): undefined reference to `lua_remove'
/usr/bin/ld: strings.c:(.text+0x348): undefined reference to `lua_remove'
/usr/bin/ld: strings.c:(.text+0x38a): undefined reference to `lua_remove'
/usr/bin/ld: strings.c:(.text+0x3cc): undefined reference to `lua_remove'
/usr/bin/ld: strings.c:(.text+0x417): undefined reference to `lua_remove'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-strings.o:strings.c:(.text+0x456): more undefined references to `lua_remove' follow
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-vlm.o: in function `vlclua_vlm_new':
vlm.c:(.text+0x212): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-xml.o: in function `vlclua_xml_create':
xml.c:(.text+0x8): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-xml.o: in function `vlclua_xml_create_reader':
xml.c:(.text+0xb7): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-io.o: in function `vlclua_io_open':
io.c:(.text+0x10b): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
/usr/bin/ld: lua/libs/.libs/liblua_plugin_la-renderers.o: in function `vlclua_rd_create':
renderers.c:(.text+0x17): undefined reference to `lua_newuserdata'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Fix for that kind of errors: Uninstall ALL lua packages, such as lua, lua51 and lua52. Afterwards, run makepkg --syncdeps which retrieves and installs the latest lua package, and then try again.

Unfortunately, for me, this only leads to the next error:

In file included from video_output/opengl/vout_helper.h:35,
                 from video_output/opengl/vout_helper.c:46:
video_output/opengl/../placebo_utils.h:322:36: error: 'pl_filter_haasnsoft' undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean 'pl_filter_gaussian'?
  322 |     [SCALE_HAASNSOFT]           = &pl_filter_haasnsoft,
      |                                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                    pl_filter_gaussian
make[4]: *** [Makefile:27837: video_output/opengl/libvlc_opengl_la-vout_helper.lo] Error 1

Looks like this one can be avoided by installing libplacebo-git as indicated in earlier comments.

Why does this package conflict with ffmpeg-git?

UPDATE: Found the problem - it is the chromaprint package. In order to use ffmpeg-git, you will have to install chromaprint-fftw from AUR.

Ok, so after a little bit of testing I was able to get this to build correctly in chroot.

Basically the first part with live555, that is fixed with the latest push (I added a patch from vlc in [extra]). The following error related to pl_filter_haasnsoft is due to libplacebo upstream accidentally pulling the filter [1]. You need to build libplacebo-git and install it in the chroot before building vlc-git. Here's a super quick update i did to the PKGBUILD [2] to get libplacebo-git to build (aur version was not building for me).

Once the next libplacebo release is cut, libplacebo-git shouldn't have to be built in order for this package to build correctly.

[1] https://github.com/haasn/libplacebo/commit/5a31ece1363c870071d1e13a5efe6956220380de [2] https://gist.github.com/andrewSC/6acfca87db8ed269f9a6b59d1c3f6a0e

I'll look into this today and follow up with what i find

When attempting to build this package, I end up with errors relating to the medialibrary library. It starts off by saying in the configuration stage that:

configure: WARNING: Library medialibrary >= 0.9.1 needed for medialibrary was not found

Later on this causes the compilation to fail with the following:

access/live555.cpp:853:63: error: ‘class MediaSubsession’ has no member named ‘connectionEndpointAddress’; did you mean ‘getConnectionEndpointAddress’?

Is there a fix for this? Or is it just some misconfiguration somewhere on my machine. It persists even when I delete the folder for the AUR package and redownload everything. I've looked and I can't find any packages for MediaLibrary itself, nor any packages that contain the troublesome file live555.cpp, and googling for VLC errors like this has left me high and dry.

access/satip.c: En la función ‘satip_thread’: ../include/vlc_threads.h:1009:43: aviso: la variable ‘__cancel_routine’ puede ser sobreescrita por ‘longjmp’ o ‘vfork’ [-Wclobbered] 1009 | # define vlc_cleanup_push( routine, arg ) pthread_cleanup_push (routine, arg) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ access/satip.c:479:9: nota: en expansión de macro ‘vlc_cleanup_push’ 479 | vlc_cleanup_push(satip_cleanup_blocks, input_blocks); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ make[4]: se sale del directorio '/var/tmp/pamac-build-user/vlc-git/src/vlc/modules' make[3]: [Makefile:34273: all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: se sale del directorio '/var/tmp/pamac-build-user/vlc-git/src/vlc/modules' make[2]: [Makefile:14329: all] Error 2 make[2]: se sale del directorio '/var/tmp/pamac-build-user/vlc-git/src/vlc/modules' make[1]: [Makefile:1586: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: se sale del directorio '/var/tmp/pamac-build-user/vlc-git/src/vlc' make: [Makefile:1473: all] Error 2 ==> ERROR: Se produjo un fallo en build().