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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: gnome dvd player
From:       Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz () il ! linuxqa ! com>
Date:       2001-03-04 11:34:16
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> 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.

If you want to - you can check out from XFree86 the CVS tree and compile it -
you'll be able to use your Voodoo (3 and above) to watch DVD's...

Browse the Xine mailing lists to see some discussions about it..

> 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.

Umm, I think Xine gui is written explicitly for the GNOME.. not sure though (I
don't use the gui stuff there)

> 
> 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.

Actually, Xine will be releasing 0.4 this week I think. They have re-written
Xine to be multi-threaded and as far as my main Linux machine shows - while it
plays - it takes between 30-35% of CPU (compared to 100% on version 0.3.x)

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

Read my answer above about your voodoo card. Now you can help :)

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

> 
> 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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> Greg Turpin
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