[directfb-dev] Re: Xine, mplayer providers

[andi <andi@fischlustig.de>]

> Hi,
>
> I am new to DirectFB so please excuse any stupid questions that i may
> ask.  I have read most of the past posts regarding mplayer and xine
> video providers but most patches apply to old versions of both of 
> these.
> Is there any updated provider patches for new versions of mplayer and
> xine.
I dont know about xine. for mplayer I can say that there is an old 
video provider which you should not use, it leaks badly and is not 
thread safe, which causes random crashes when calling Stop() SeekTo() 
etc. I have updated this provider to work with the latest DirectFB and 
fixed the crashes, but I will release it when the port to 1.0rc1 is 
finished and all leaks are gone.

mplayer is a really cool player but looking at the code, it is a piece 
of junk. a much cleaner approach would be using ffmpeg's libavcodec 
(xine and mplayer also use libavcodec). Using it directly instead of 
xine or mplayer would eliminate a (fat) additional layer.

> I have already made modifications the old patches to compile with
> new xine but dfb doesn't seem to want to recognize it as a provider for
> some reason.
I had the same problem with the mplayer videoprovider. My "fault" was 
to use ld for linking instead of using gcc. Maybe you should check 
that. You can send me your code if you want me to have a look at it.

>  Xine seemsto have its own version of video_out for
> directfb, is this one good?
I don't know, never tested it.

andi




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