Siggi Langauf wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Siggi Langauf wrote: > > > > > So if you just get it running: fine! Nice if you'd send me a note. > > > > Built them on powerpc without a hitch, and they basically work. :) > > That's good news.
Indeed, I am pleased with the progress xine has made wrt portability. > > > If there are any severe showstoppers: hmmm, notify me, or maybe even > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, so we can find a solution. > > > > One thing is that it seems to hang when it can't initialize sound. > > I'm not sure about this, but sound used to work on ppc, though there have > been some problems. Maybe someone on the xine lists knows more? > > Does it always hang? Does it work somitimes, when it's able to initialize > sound? Does it work _only_ when sound is disabled with "-A null"? No, it worked for me with -A oss, but not without any -A argument. It would try to initialize alsa and esd (which I both don't have running) and then hang. > > Also, I was excited at first to see that it has an ffmpeg plugin, but I > > couldn't play MJPEG nor DivX files, is that to be expected? > > This is expected to work, but I think ffmpeg still has some problems on > big endian machines. Any volunteers are welcome ;-) The strange thing is that it said it couldn't find a decoder for both file types, even though it showed the correct ID (verified with xanim, which plays the MJPEG files). Endianness bug with the type detection? > > Haven't tried DVD playback. > > But that should really work fine... I don't doubt it. :) How can I play encrypted DVDs? > > All in all, I guess I can upload the packages? > > I think so. But they're not in the database yet, so it will tage a few > dasy before they hit the archive. Maybe 0.5.2 is out till then... All the better, but it doesn't hurt to have the old ones available, does it? -- Michel Dänzer | Iogram AG | http://iogram.ch Laupenstrasse 1 | 3008 Bern | +41 (0)1 465 45 45
