Well, well, well.

It seems I've overstepped my abilities.

After doing an initial overview of DVD playing in Linux
it seems that I don't have the hardware to support DVD playing
in Linux.  Most of the DVD support is centered around the
high end graphics cards.  I have the DVD player, but not
the nVidia or Matrox G200-400 cards.  I'm only a Voodoo man.
So, I don't think that I will be able to handle this project.

But, my initial research suggests that adding native GUI support
for KDE is not too much of a problem.

Keep in mind that I've only had a look at the codebase for the
latest stable release of these apps.

Xine: I like this app.  All of the GUI code is separate (just a GUI
directory).  However, the current GUI is written in X.  I don't
really think there is a GNOME dependency.

Videolan: the GUI is abstracted, porting to KDE should be relatively
easy.  Should just be porting GNOME tools to KDE.  They seem to be big
supporters of OMS.

OMS: GUI is very abstract (a separate package in fact).  Very GNOME
centered.  But, the port to KDE should be easy.

My wimpy Voodoo keeps me from getting involved in this project.  It
works on Windows, heh, but, not Linux.  My desire to get involved with
KDE overstepped my hardware capabilities.

Keep in mind that all of the above mentioned projects are mostly dependent
on external DVD and MPEG decoders that use X.  The projects are also
nowhere near 1.0 releases.  I don't think any of them are beyond
version number 0.4.  So, their support is still in the development stage.
There would definitely be a lot of upkeep if this was to become a supported
KDE application.  Maybe KDE should wait until the libraries and
programs are more stable.

Sorry to get everyone's hopes up.  I'm just too eager.  I appreciate
everyone's great feedback.

Greg



On Sunday 04 March 2001 12:52 am, George Staikos wrote:
> On Sunday 04 March 2001 00:02, craig wrote:
> > Hello i'm just a end user with no programing skills, so all I can do
> > right now is suggest and support. I recently came across this gnome dvd
> > app that plays dvd movies (http://www.videolan.org). I would like to
> > suggest that someone make a kde port of it in much the same way as the
> > kompany ported gphoto to kde. I hope a developer will consider it. It
> > would make a great addition to kde 2.2!!!
>
>    There are three players currently working in Linux.  OMS seems to have
> the best design for integrating different GUIs.  I expect it would be very
> easy to write a KDE GUI for it.  I have had the most success getting Xine
> to play DVDs for me.  And of course I"ve heard good reviews of videolan as
> well.  In any case, it would be really nice to have a native DVD player. 
> The biggest problem will be portability though.  I'm sure it won't work on
> all the platforms that KDE works on.  Also all of these players seem to be
> under heavy development and the interfaces could keep changing from day to
> day.  It might be a lot of work to maintain at first.
>
>    It's definitely something to consider for the future.

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