Re: [xine-devel] xine-lib portability

[Siggi L. <si...@us...>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, John Didion wrote:

> How portable is the xine lib? We'd like to use xine to
> play theora files from within our java app, but it
> needs to run on linux, mac, and windows. We would
> write a java gui (rather than trying to write a JNI
> interface to win32 xine), so I'm only interested in
> the portability of the core xine engine.

xine-lib is quite portable, running on all those platforms.
However, there's still some issues with Mac OS: xine has only been proted
to OS X, so far, and there is no native driver for both audio and video
output on this platform.
However, the X11 video out and esd audio out do work, if you have the
appropriate servers (I've tested that). SDL should work, too. (untested,
at least by me).

> Also, does anyone know of a xine java gui that's been
> written already?

IIRC, there is one. You should find a reference in the list archive.
However, I don't know what state it's currently in...

As a summary, you'd probably have to put some effort in audio/video output
drivers on MacOS, and maybe on Windows, too.

HTH,
	Siggi