[Libxine-java-devel] Fwd: xine-lib 1.1.18 and project status?

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

Hi Fabian

On 19.01.2011, at 11:18, <frt...@ya...> <frt...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> This project has obviously been dormant for a while now. I am wondering if I 
> could just take the existing code and run it without changes against the current 
> xine-lib 1.1.18?
You could try :)

> Otherwise, would you accept patches?
As xine-lib is rather mature, I'd expect libxine-java to compile as it is against it. And yes, I'm happy to accept patches.

> 
> Also I am wondering if the efforts to run xine-lib on Windows have been 
> maintained with the current xine-lib releases?
No idea. I think I've seen patches in the last two years by a former xine windows dev.

> Last but not least, the JNA port would be attractive. I have been playing a 
> little with vlcj, which are Java bindings for VLC using JNA. Video and even 
> hardware accelerated video works just fine with it so I don't see a major reason 
> why it wouldn't work for xine. I am not clear what prevented the libxine-java 
> JNA port from progressing to video?

I don't remember exactly. Looking at the JNA port WIKI page, I think a major problem was that JNA was not directly able to integrate with the Objective-C/Cocoa runtime on the Mac. 

And there have been two other reasons. The project related reason was that xine-lib just didn't work properly on Windows, which defies it's main goal: video playback on mac/windows/linux.

The non-projet reason was that I bought an iPhone, played with it, and started to write a Bluetooth stack for it. The btstack.org project has been rather successful so far and all my free time got eaten up there since. :)

best
Matthias

> 
> Fabian