Re: [Redbutton-devel] Small changes to rb for Fedora 9

[Andrea <mar...@go...>]

Andrea wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently moved to Fedora 9 and I've just tried to run 
> redbutton-browser.
> I had a few small of issues:
> 
> 1) the alsa output device "plughw" is not good when using pulseaudio, 
> and in general I would use "default". Or one could allow for a command 
> line option
> 
> 2) redbutton still uses img_convert and other deprecated functions from 
> ffmpeg. The recommended funtions are swscale. I managed to convert 
> videoout_xshm.c to the new framework.
> There are still 2 more occurencies which I have not converted.
> 
> 3) avcodec_decode_audio should be replaced by avcodec_decode_audio2 
> which requires af->item.size to be initialized.
> 
> 4) aspect-ratio: BBC broadcasts in 16:9, while redbutton shows 
> everything 4:3. I have not yet found how to change it
> 
> 5) audio in Multiscreen. No audio is played while in News Multiscreen. I 
> get those warnings:
> Unable to open MPEG stream (16768, 53, 0)
> 
> 6) xvideo: I am trying to change to xvideo. Any suggestions?
> 
> Andrea
> 
I forgot the patch.

Andrea