[xine-devel] More CDDA configurability via libcddb 0.9.4 pre1

[R. B. <ro...@pa...>]

I recently received word that a pre-release of libcddb 0.9.4 is available
from http://libcddb.sourceforge.net/pre-release/libcddb-0.9.4-pre1.tar.gz 
it has these welcome additions (among others):

* Support for tilde-expansion (~) in the local cache directory has
   been added.  If the cache directory starts wit a tilde and the $HOME
   environment variable is defined, then the tilde will be replaced by
   the value of $HOME.

* All the networking code (DNS query, connect, read, write) now
   supports time-outs to prevent blocking indefinitely.  By default
   this time-out is set to ten seconds.  See the cddb_conn_t structure
   for more information.

* A logging framework was added.  This framework supports different
   log levels and provides the possibility to install a custom log
   handler. 

These improvement have been incorporated into the CVS version of the
CDDA plugin that uses libcddb: CDX inside xine-vcdx. I've also made
changes into libcdio's CVS at
http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=libcdio

For xine-vcdx's CDX plugin, you can now set the cache directory, and
timeout value, and whether to cache the entries or not. In libcdio,
the utility cd-info now has options that will let you set the timeout
and cache directory among other things.

People are invited to help test libcddb (via xine-vcdx's CD-DA or
libcdio or separately) to help find bugs or make suggestions. So far I
haven't found any bugs and the only comment I have is that this is all
very nice work by Kris Verbeeck.