Hi George, others...

Actually, wading through the livid mailing lists (where most components has been
created there - e.g. mpeg2dec, ac3dec, libcss etc) - you can see there that all
of those parts works quite well on Solaris, *BSD and Linux, as well as
PowerPC...

So portability is not a problem (other then SGI, but I know that there are some
engineers from SGI in this list who can probably assist in porting to SGI)...

What could be a bit of a problem is the Xv exntension in XFree. Linux have it,
and I think *BSD also, but I don't know about PowerPC and others..

You can go with libSDL, but that will cost performance (try to compare
performance with SDL on VideoLan and Xv on Xine and see what I mean)..

-- 
Hetz Ben Hamo
Hardware Research dept.
Aduva Inc.


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.
> 
> --
> 
> George Staikos
> 
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