[mythtv-users] can I use xine (VeXP) instead of mplayer in myth?
Scott Blomfield
ScottB at Cavps.com
Wed Aug 27 09:29:54 EDT 2003
Any program can hook into that binary precompiled driver in the same way
VeXP does.... if VeXP can use it to decode MPEG, so can any other
application. The source code to VeXP is open. You shouldn't need
anything else. This is what Isaac and I have been saying all along.
Don't get me wrong, the work is not trivial by any measure, but there is
existing example work anyone could look and copy across without signing
an NDA, and it would be legal.
The following is not a flame, it's an observation you really ought to
think about:
Since you readily admit that you do not understand this stuff, perhaps
you might consider not making blanket statements and assertions about
it. I appreciate that not everyone can know everything about this stuff.
Personally, I don't know that much about it either, but I at least
looked up the details and tried to understand it, and I *listen* to the
responses that I get. I read the list a lot, and gain knowledge that way
too. Two minutes spent on google can provide a wealth of information.
-----Original Message-----
From: and [mailto:hons at rcn.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:16 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] can I use xine (VeXP) instead of mplayer in
myth?
You are right, and I don't really understand this as I'm not a code
person.
As I understood it they provide precompiled binary cle266 drivers for
some distros and VeXP hooks into it and that is why you can only use
VeXP on a few distros at the moment.
With an NDA from VIA sales you can get access according to their
opensource liaison guy I emailed with, so I guess you could get hold of
the mpeg2 code and integrate it in myth... ;-)
anders
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 05:30 PM, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 07:36 pm, and wrote:
>> Mainly because the VIA open-source team are very unlikely to release
>> the mpeg code for fear of reprisals from the movie industry.
According
>> to the viaarana forum discussions.
>
> Um. How do you think support was integrated into Xine?
>
> Isaac
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