[xine-devel] java bindings for xine: libxine-java.sf.net

[Matthias R. <mri...@in...>]

hi all

I just wanted to let you know that I've started a project on  
sourceforge with the
goal of providing a useful/small/efficient..  java binding for xine.

Basically, all I wanted to have was to be able to build a home  
theater system in
java but failed to utilize the main video players (mplayer,vlc and  
xine) properly
from java. After looking around, xine was the only one that at least  
provided
a clean API and a simple example (muxine.c) which shows how to build  
a front-end.

based on xine & muxine, I've used SWIG to wrap the complete xine api  
and started to write
minimal c code to support X11 and Mac OS X window handling and such.
by this, it should be possible to use the whole xine api without  
writing a complete
wrapper/layer on top of it. this can be done for convenience, but I  
try to keep it simple.

In the end, it should be possible to use xine for movies/music from java
without knowing which OS and/or java vm is beneath (basic java idea).


considering the multimedia API just discussed here, I'll first try to  
stay close to
the originial xine api, but there's no reason no to add such an API  
on it.
the basic work will be front-end code for different platforms.

there's not much of documentation or web site, but the ReadMe.txt
should provide a first running demo.

If someone wants to join, just drop me a note.. :)

cheers
matthias ringwald