Re: [xine-devel] xine-lib: race condition in audio_out.c causes ALSA to assert

[Petri H. <Pet...@hu...>]

On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 00:53 +0100, Reinhard Nissl wrote:
> > How about creating self-compiling input plugin ?
> > 
> > I mean, separating vdr and xine specific parts and having two packages,
> > one as vdr server component (vdr-xine) and another as xine add-on input
> > plugin (vdr://) ? It is quite easy to form a makefile for add-on xine
> > input plugin. I belive such a separtation would make vdr-xine a lot
> > easier for all distribution maintainers ... ?
> 
> The idea is not bad but at the moment it doesn't work as my vdr-xine
> related patch addresses for example libmpeg2. Once these parts of the
> patch have been added to CVS, one could go on to either create
> self-compiling vdr-plugins or to add them to xine too.
> 
> One reason why there hasn't been any progress in this direction during
> this year is that I was quite busy at work and at home with other
> things. So, let's see how things evolve next year ...
> 

I was just thinking it might be easier to push patches thru in smaller
chunks.

And, it is easier for package maintainers to make separate builds if
there was separate input_vdr module.

I agree your patch addresses several serious problems inside xine-lib,
buy most parts of this "mega" patch could be implemented as simple
separate patches unrelated to actual vdr-xine plugin (?).


- Petri