Re: [xine-user] Is it possible to change Xine to play MPEG1 audio, but not decode the video?

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

Hi Alan,

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Alan Messer wrote:

> I have strange request. I want to be able to play MPEG1 audio from
> a .mpg file (transport stream?), but decode no video. I've tried
> -H to hide the video window, but alas the platform is too slow to
> create good audio with the video decoding running in the background.
>
> Can somebody point me to a point in the code that might disable
> video decoding? Or worst-case, another program/tools that might do
> the job?

The easiest solution would be removing the MPEG video decoder:

rm `xine-config --plugindir`/xineplug_decode_mpeg2.so

should do the job.
Note that this will permanently disable MPEG video, which should be okay
if your machine is too slow to cope with video decoding.

> Also, I'm compiling for arm-unknown-gnu-linux. Xine complains this
> configuration isn't known, yet I've seen Xine run under Linux on
> an iPAQ. Does anyone know if there are any patches available for
> this platform?

None that I know of.
But if you know "the optimal" compiler flags for your architecture, you
can just post them on xine-devel and the warning will disappear in the
next release. (Don't worry, patches always get approved on xine-devel ;-)

Cheers,
	Siggi