[xine-devel] 0.4.0alpha is in CVS

[Guenter B. <bar...@st...>]

Hi everyone,

yes, it's true, I finally did a cvs commit and now the new architecture is
in CVS. Much has changed, for details see below.

A notice to end-users who are following the xine CVS (and are used to get
mature code from there ;)) : the code I just checked in is still und heavy
developement, don't expect it to be usefull [yet]. This code is meant for
debugging and improving, not for testing only. If you try it and tell me
it doesn't work, I'll happily ignore you (since I already know); if you
try it and send me a patch to make it work again on your configuration
you're welcome.

Ok, now the details. What's new:

- system clock is used as timer device instead of audio hardware/driver

- multi-threaded architecture, xine gets idle when there's more CPU power
  than needed

- libmpg123 has a new interface similar to libac3

what's broken :

- spu decoder: yes, it was me, I broke it - sorry folks!
  I didn't want to wait any longer with my commit, so I checked it in
  as it is.

  getting it to work again shouldn't be too difficult; we first need
  to provide vpts calculation functions in metronom for the subtitles

- alsa audio driver

- the avi demuxer needs some work - anybody on this list in the know
  with avi and how syncing really works in these files?

- syncfb video driver

next things on the TODO list:

- libmpeg2 update (Michel: the new libvo interface looks nice,
  I think the diffs needed for xine should be rather small :-))

- new video_out_xshm (including subtitle support and scaling)

- as a proof of concept for the new architecture:
  audio_esd_out (yes, that should be possible now),
  video_out_xremote

There has been a lot of talk about porting efforts to other platforms that
linux/freebsd on x86 architectures. I really consider this important,
however, I think we should schedule that for the 0.5.x series of
xine. First I'd like to see the new code getting somewhat stable again,
then we can go for other hardware/os platforms. But that doesn't mean that
anybody should stop his porting efforts - keep up the good work, but don't
be too disappointed if your patches won't go into xine CVS at this point.

Cheers,

   Guenter