Re: [xine-user] Xv Window Resizing

[Toby Jaffey <toby@ea...>]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:21:55AM -0600, Michael R. Eckhoff wrote:

> You nailed it right on the head.

> I spent about an hour last night adding a bunch of debug code to xine to 
> figure out what was goign on, and it's only on downscale.

> You're also correct in that it's an Nvidia card.

> Do you know if it's their drivers, the card, or the standard XFree 
> drivers?  I've got a Voodoo3 3000, I may toss that in instead.

Downscaling doesn't seem to work quite right on the Voodoo3 either,
although it does work.

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Re: [xine-user] Xine and audio volume

[Michael R. Eckhoff <foobar@nu...>]

I've found that on some DVD's you can just change to a different audio 
stream and get your volume back up quite a bit.  For instance, on Austin 
Powers 2, I put the audio selection at 1 - Which I assume is 2 Ch stereo 
instead of 5.1, and it's much better.

Mike

Siggi Langauf wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Derrik Pates wrote:
> 
> 
>> [low audio volume in xine]
>> That's the way it is. The way DVDs are mastered (and apparently VCD/SVCD
>> discs too), the audio is just plain lower volume. I've noticed that on
>> every DVD player I've used - on my computer, MP3s, CD audio, etc., is
>> ALWAYS louder than DVD/VCD audio (even in 'doze). Even on the set-top I
>> bought this past weekend (a rather nice Pioneer with p-scan support), I
>> see it.
> 
> 
> Well, not quite true: The reason why the volume is so low is
> downmixing: The AC3 Sound on most DVDs unpacks to five separate Audio
> channels which have to be mixed to form a two channel
> (stereo) signal. This is basically done like this:
> 
> left  = (left front + 0.5 center + left surround) / 2.5
> right = (right front + 0.5 center + right surround) / 2.5
> 
> We have tried to be a bit sloppy about the division, but when we divide by
> ,eg, 1.5 only, sound overdrives with some DVDs. So it's a trade-off
> between proper volume and sound quality (overdriving gives horrible
> crackling noises).
> 
> However, we reduced the share of the surround channels, which gives
> slightly louder volume, but less surround effect with Dolby Surround
> decoders.
> 
> This code used to be in libac3/downmix.c. However, it seemed to have
> vanished there (now done by rematrix.c? Günter? Anyone??) 
> 
> 
>> Turn up the volume. Get an amp. That's about all you can do...
> 
> 
> For now, that's right...
> Maybe, we can add some compressor code (ie. low volume is amplified, or
> rather less extenuated). Anyone is welcome to help out here ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 	Siggi
> 
> 
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Re: [xine-user] Xv Window Resizing

[Michael R. Eckhoff <foobar@nu...>]

You nailed it right on the head.

I spent about an hour last night adding a bunch of debug code to xine to 
figure out what was goign on, and it's only on downscale.

You're also correct in that it's an Nvidia card.

Do you know if it's their drivers, the card, or the standard XFree 
drivers?  I've got a Voodoo3 3000, I may toss that in instead.

I need to check to see if my oms is doing downscaling or running through 
the image resize function.  If it's running through the resize function 
- i'm still getting full frame rate - so I'll try and port that over as 
a --enable-broken-downscale option or something cuz it'll probably nuke 
performance on lower end systems (this is a 1.2Ghz Athalon).

Thanks for your help!

Mike

Siggi Langauf wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Michael R. Eckhoff wrote:
> 
> 
>> Are there any patches to allow you to resize the window?  Currently, the 
>> only video size I am able to get is 854x480 or some variation thereof - 
>> depending on the aspect ratio I choose.
> 
> 
> If you're really using Xv (try to press "f", if you get fullscreen, yu are
> using Xv), then it should be no problem: just use your window manager to
> resize the window!
> 
> 
>> I'd really like to be able to get say, 65x38 or something that is 
>> watchable in a side window.
>> 
>> If i resize the window, the actual playback video stays the same size (I 
>> just see less of it).
> 
> 
> Aaaah. That's another problem: You're probly using an Nvidia card. Their
> drivers don't supprot downscaling, but you still can drag the window
> bigger (or buy a video-friendly Card like the ones from Matrox).
> 
> 
>> FYI, I am using the Xv plugin and both the stable version and the CVS as 
>> of today (2/21).
> 
> 
> I don't know if we will ever implement that, since it's a workaround only
> needed for some (buggy) Xv drivers...
> 
> Regards,
> 	Siggi
> 
> 
> 
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> xine-user@...
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xine-user

Re: [xine-user] Xine and audio volume

[Siggi Langauf <langausd@fa...>]

Hi,

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Derrik Pates wrote:

> [low audio volume in xine]
> That's the way it is. The way DVDs are mastered (and apparently VCD/SVCD
> discs too), the audio is just plain lower volume. I've noticed that on
> every DVD player I've used - on my computer, MP3s, CD audio, etc., is
> ALWAYS louder than DVD/VCD audio (even in 'doze). Even on the set-top I
> bought this past weekend (a rather nice Pioneer with p-scan support), I
> see it.

Well, not quite true: The reason why the volume is so low is
downmixing: The AC3 Sound on most DVDs unpacks to five separate Audio
channels which have to be mixed to form a two channel
(stereo) signal. This is basically done like this:

left  =3D (left front + 0.5 center + left surround) / 2.5
right =3D (right front + 0.5 center + right surround) / 2.5

We have tried to be a bit sloppy about the division, but when we divide by
,eg, 1.5 only, sound overdrives with some DVDs. So it's a trade-off
between proper volume and sound quality (overdriving gives horrible
crackling noises).

However, we reduced the share of the surround channels, which gives
slightly louder volume, but less surround effect with Dolby Surround
decoders.

This code used to be in libac3/downmix.c. However, it seemed to have
vanished there (now done by rematrix.c? G=FCnter? Anyone??)=20

> Turn up the volume. Get an amp. That's about all you can do...

For now, that's right...
Maybe, we can add some compressor code (ie. low volume is amplified, or
rather less extenuated). Anyone is welcome to help out here ;-)

Regards,
=09Siggi

Re: [xine-user] Xv Window Resizing

[Siggi Langauf <langausd@fa...>]

Hi,

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Michael R. Eckhoff wrote:

> Are there any patches to allow you to resize the window?  Currently, the 
> only video size I am able to get is 854x480 or some variation thereof - 
> depending on the aspect ratio I choose.

If you're really using Xv (try to press "f", if you get fullscreen, yu are
using Xv), then it should be no problem: just use your window manager to
resize the window!

> I'd really like to be able to get say, 65x38 or something that is 
> watchable in a side window.
> 
> If i resize the window, the actual playback video stays the same size (I 
> just see less of it).

Aaaah. That's another problem: You're probly using an Nvidia card. Their
drivers don't supprot downscaling, but you still can drag the window
bigger (or buy a video-friendly Card like the ones from Matrox).

> FYI, I am using the Xv plugin and both the stable version and the CVS as 
> of today (2/21).

I don't know if we will ever implement that, since it's a workaround only
needed for some (buggy) Xv drivers...

Regards,
	Siggi

[xine-user] Re: Patch-fix for PowerPC in OMS (fwd FYI)

[Bill Fink <billfink@ca...>]

I thought this would be of interest to PPC xine folks.  Thanks to
the great work of Eric Windisch finding and correcting the problem
with the "Invalid mantissa" errors during the ac3 audio decoding,
I now have a fully functional xine for the first time on my G4, both
audio and video.  I just watched the beginning portion of my
unencrypted Highlander DVD.  The rough xine patch mentioned in
the attached message is the patch to xine 0.3.6 that I submitted
earlier to xine-user.  This patch used the system real-time clock
to provide the timing information for the audio output.  Since the
xine 0.4.0 code now uses the system real-time clock for both audio
and video, I'm hoping that portion of my patch will no longer be
necessary.  Once 0.4.0 is released as a tar file, I'll try and spend
some time cleaning up my patch and reworking it for use with 0.4.0.
I am so happy to finally be able to watch (and listen to) my DVDs
on my G4.  Many thanks to Eric Windisch and the xine developers!!!!!

						-Bill



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:31:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Fink <billfink@...>
To: ewindisc@...
Cc: livid-dev@...
Subject: Re: Patch-fix for PowerPC in OMS

Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!

I had been beating my head against the wall for quite a while now
trying to figure out what was causing the "Invalid mantissa" errors
during the ac3 audio decoding.

I was actually working on getting xine (0.3.6) to work on PPC, which
thanks to your patch and a rough xine patch I worked up earlier, does
now work for both audio and video.  I'll have to try out both oms and
xine now, to compare their relative performance and functionality.

						-Bill

P.S.  The browse the mailing-lists link on the user support page is
      broken.  It points to http://www.linuxvideo.org/devel/mailinglists.html,
      which is just a blank page.  To get to the actual correct page,
      it is then necessary to strip out the "/devel" component, giving
      http://www.linuxvideo.org/mailinglists.html.



> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Eric Windisch wrote:
> 
> This patch fixes OMS for PowerPC processors.
> 
> This took a few days to do, although it appears quite simple. It seems
> that this whole fiasco would have been avoided in the first place, for
> not for a bug in GCC.  -O and -funroll-all-loops (and hence -O2 which
> includes -funroll-all-loops) broke on bit_allocate.c (finding the
> source of the problem was a full day's work).  Anyhow, PowerPC users
> rejoice.. you now have DVDs playing in linux, with sound, at about 5fps.
> 
> I'm working on getting the GCC team to see if there is anything we can
> do to speed this up, and fix their bug!!
> 
> On a side note: this patch required the removal of an unnecessary
> variable of type int, 2 birds with one stone :)
> 
> --
> Eric Windisch
> 
> 
> ? src/plugin/codec/ac3dec/libac3/ppc-fix.diff
> Index: src/plugin/codec/ac3dec/libac3/bit_allocate.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/livid/ac3dec/libac3/bit_allocate.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.3
> diff -u -r1.3 bit_allocate.c
> --- src/plugin/codec/ac3dec/libac3/bit_allocate.c       2000/10/01 15:57:43     1.3
> +++ src/plugin/codec/ac3dec/libac3/bit_allocate.c       2001/02/20 04:39:33
> @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@
>  static void ba_compute_psd(int16_t start, int16_t end, int16_t exps[], 
>                 int16_t psd[], int16_t bndpsd[])
>  {
> -       int bin,i,j,k;
> +       int bin,j,k;
>         int16_t lastbin = 0;
>         
>         /* Map the exponents into dBs */
> @@ -322,9 +322,8 @@
>                 bndpsd[k] = psd[j]; 
>                 j++; 
>  
> -               for (i = j; i < lastbin; i++) { 
> +               for (; j < lastbin; j++) { 
>                         bndpsd[k] = logadd(bndpsd[k], psd[j]);
> -                       j++; 
>                 } 
>                 
>                 k++;

[xine-user] Xv Window Resizing

[Michael R. Eckhoff <foobar@nu...>]

Are there any patches to allow you to resize the window?  Currently, the 
only video size I am able to get is 854x480 or some variation thereof - 
depending on the aspect ratio I choose.

I'd really like to be able to get say, 65x38 or something that is 
watchable in a side window.

If i resize the window, the actual playback video stays the same size (I 
just see less of it).

FYI, I am using the Xv plugin and both the stable version and the CVS as 
of today (2/21).

Thanks

Mike

Re: [xine-user] Xine and audio volume

[Peter Wright <pete@cy...>]

Hi all.

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:05:17PM -0700, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, MichaelM wrote:
> > I'm not an expert on the matter, but could it possibly have anything to
[ snip ]
> Some DVDs have plain PCM streams, I think (maybe not?). That has nothing
> to do with it tho - everything, once it's in your computer, is data -
> MP3, PCM, Dolby AC3, DTS, OggVorbis, or any other format - it just
> doesn't matter. It may just be that the recording level is a bit lower on
> DVD and [S]VCD discs. There's nothing (afaik) in AC3 audio encoding that
> inherently makes it quieter than any other format - and the MPEG audio in
> a [S]VCD isn't really dissimilar from MP3 audio.

I'd just like to know - can any of you suggest and/or recommend some
technical documentation on the web where I might be able to learn more
about (specifically) PCM, Dolby AC3, DTS... I am sadly ignorant about audio
stuff and would like to redress this if possible.

> Derrik Pates      | Sysadmin, Douglas School|    _   #linuxOS on EFnet

Regarding the volume problem this thread was about earlier - I've found the
same thing, but I've generally been able to deal with it by using gmix to
turn the "Vol" and "Pcm" levels higher. Of course, then I need to turn
things back down (either with the mixer or external volume control) when
I've finished with the DVD, but oh well... :)

Pete.
-- 
http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~pete/

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Re: [xine-user] Xine and audio volume

[Derrik Pates <dpates@an...>]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, MichaelM wrote:

> I'm not an expert on the matter, but could it possibly have anything to do
> with the fact that DVD's do NOT store audio as PCM (aka, an AC3 stream is
> fundamantally more quite than a PCM stream). I read that an AC3 stream is a
> data stream as opposed to an audio stream. Could that have something to do
> with it also? (is there a PCM stream on DVD's?)

Some DVDs have plain PCM streams, I think (maybe not?). That has nothing
to do with it tho - everything, once it's in your computer, is data - MP3,
PCM, Dolby AC3, DTS, OggVorbis, or any other format - it just doesn't
matter. It may just be that the recording level is a bit lower on DVD and
[S]VCD discs. There's nothing (afaik) in AC3 audio encoding that
inherently makes it quieter than any other format - and the MPEG audio in
a [S]VCD isn't really dissimilar from MP3 audio.

Derrik Pates      | Sysadmin, Douglas School|    _   #linuxOS on EFnet
dpates@... |  District (dsdk12.net)  |   | |   and now OPN too!
   Student @ South Dakota School of Mines   | __| |___ _ _ _   ___ _ _   ____
       & Technology (www.sdsmt.edu)         |/ _  / -_) ' \ '\/ _ \ ' \ (____)
UNIX: Because you want to USE your computer.|\___,\___|_||_||_\___/_||_|

Re: [xine-user] Xine and audio volume

[Derrik Pates <dpates@an...>]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Ethan wrote:

> Mine also, I cant actually get dvd's playing (only tried matrix), but
> started a svcd with xine -a 8 //vcd:1
>
> Its funny I read this as the volume issue was why I joined the
> list :)

That's the way it is. The way DVDs are mastered (and apparently VCD/SVCD
discs too), the audio is just plain lower volume. I've noticed that on
every DVD player I've used - on my computer, MP3s, CD audio, etc., is
ALWAYS louder than DVD/VCD audio (even in 'doze). Even on the set-top I
bought this past weekend (a rather nice Pioneer with p-scan support), I
see it.

Turn up the volume. Get an amp. That's about all you can do...

Derrik Pates      | Sysadmin, Douglas School|    _   #linuxOS on EFnet
dpates@... |  District (dsdk12.net)  |   | |   and now OPN too!
   Student @ South Dakota School of Mines   | __| |___ _ _ _   ___ _ _   ____
       & Technology (www.sdsmt.edu)         |/ _  / -_) ' \ '\/ _ \ ' \ (____)
UNIX: Because you want to USE your computer.|\___,\___|_||_||_\___/_||_|

Re: [xine-user] Xine and audio volume

[MichaelM <lordvader@ei...>]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:18, you wrote:
> I can corroborate this report - PCM volume for DVDs is also very quiet
> on my SB AWE 64. What's the problem?
>
I'm not an expert on the matter, but could it possibly have anything to do 
with the fact that DVD's do NOT store audio as PCM (aka, an AC3 stream is 
fundamantally more quite than a PCM stream). I read that an AC3 stream is a 
data stream as opposed to an audio stream. Could that have something to do 
with it also? (is there a PCM stream on DVD's?)

Again, I'm only guessing for now.

Re: [xine-user] Xine and audio volume

[Ethan <oldschool@tp...>]

Mine also, I cant actually get dvd's playing (only tried matrix), but
started a svcd with xine -a 8 //vcd:1

Its funny I read this as the volume issue was why I joined the
list :)

Any ideas?  Please and thanks, Ethan

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:18:44PM -0500, Owen B. Mehegan wrote:
> I can corroborate this report - PCM volume for DVDs is also very quiet
> on my SB AWE 64. What's the problem?
> 
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, MichaelM wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:18:35 +0000
> > To: xine-user@...
> > From: MichaelM <lordvader@...>
> > Sender: xine-user-admin@...
> > Subject: [xine-user] Xine and audio volume
> > 
> > I'm not sure if anyones noticed, but with my current set up, the
> > sound volume 
> > of DVD's, is much lower then mp3 or CD playback at the same volume.
> > Can 
> > anyone account for this anomoly? My soundcard is a SBLive Value,
> > paired up 
> > with some Altec Lansing ATP3 speakers (very sexy).
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > xine-user mailing list
> > xine-user@...
> > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xine-user
> -- 
> omehegan@... (Owen B. Mehegan)
> http://www.nerdnetworks.org
> "I can't be wrong -- my modem is error-correcting."
> 
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[xine-user] SDL output

[Joshua Bahnsen <stellarspace69@ya...>]

Are there any plans for an SDL video output plugin so that X isn't =
required? No, I cannot write such a thing, I was curious if it was in =
the works, I would appreciate it, that's for sure.

Joshua Bahnsen

[xine-user] Slayers

[Sean Middleditch <sean.middleditch@in...>]

I can't seem to get the Slayers DVD series to work on Xine (0.3.7, with
captain_css).  I'm using Linux 2.2.17 (Mandrake 7.2), on a 1Ghz Athlon,
some generic Compaq DVD (came with my old machine), no hardware decode,
XFree86 4.0.2, nVidia drivers 0.9-6, with a Gefore 256 DDR (Creative
Annihilator Pro).

The DVD starts working, but the video occasionally freezes or gets really
choppy.

Is there any other information I can give that would help debug this
problem?  I'm willing to do anything I know how (or can learn) to get these
DVD's playing, they (along with Rourini Kenshin, which works fine in Xine,
btw) are the only real reasons I have for watching DVD's right now. ^,^

Thanks,
-- 
Sean Middleditch
  of
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.

Re: [xine-user] Xine and audio volume

[Owen B. Mehegan <omehegan@ly...>]

I can corroborate this report - PCM volume for DVDs is also very quiet
on my SB AWE 64. What's the problem?

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, MichaelM wrote:
> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:18:35 +0000
> To: xine-user@...
> From: MichaelM <lordvader@...>
> Sender: xine-user-admin@...
> Subject: [xine-user] Xine and audio volume
> 
> I'm not sure if anyones noticed, but with my current set up, the
> sound volume 
> of DVD's, is much lower then mp3 or CD playback at the same volume.
> Can 
> anyone account for this anomoly? My soundcard is a SBLive Value,
> paired up 
> with some Altec Lansing ATP3 speakers (very sexy).
> 
> _______________________________________________
> xine-user mailing list
> xine-user@...
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xine-user
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[xine-user] Xine and audio volume

[MichaelM <lordvader@ei...>]

I'm not sure if anyones noticed, but with my current set up, the sound volume 
of DVD's, is much lower then mp3 or CD playback at the same volume. Can 
anyone account for this anomoly? My soundcard is a SBLive Value, paired up 
with some Altec Lansing ATP3 speakers (very sexy).

Re: [xine-user] autogen.sh fails

[Siggi Langauf <langausd@fa...>]

Hi,

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Raphael H=FCrzeler wrote:

> I get the exact same error messages as of 18/02/01, the cvs of 17/02/01 o=
r=20
> earlier works fine. I checked multiple times clean install etc. all to no=
=20
> avail. I'm using SuSE7.1, xine 0.3.7 and 0.4.0cvs (upt to 17/02/01) worke=
d=20
> flawlessly.

You'll need Autoconf Macros for esd support, as the new esd Audio plugin
is now included. In Debian, these Macros are part of the libesd-alsa0-dev
or libesd0-dev packages. Don't know how to install them on SuSE..

> Hope this helps track down the problem...

There is no spoon, ummm, problem...

Regards,
=09Siggi

Re: [xine-user] autogen.sh fails

[<DVornheder@t-...>]

> >
> > After latest version from cvs starting autogen.sh fails:
>
> --snip error messages
>
> 	You should check the following:
> 	-Have you all of autoconf stuff installed ?
> 	-Is your local cvs tree is complete ?? (check if m4 subdir
> 	 is non empty).
> 	-Have you esd installed.
>
> 	I don't know which linux distro you use, but on RH and
> Debian, there're some *-devel packages, which are required to
> compile xine CVS version.
>

Thanks for help. I find the problem. A few days before i installed

esd from source. After doing an uninstall and install the rpm (devel)

from SuSE 7.1Prof. everything runs.

Dirk

Re: [xine-user] autogen.sh fails

[Raphael <r.h@dp...>]

I get the exact same error messages as of 18/02/01, the cvs of 17/02/01 or 
earlier works fine. I checked multiple times clean install etc. all to no 
avail. I'm using SuSE7.1, xine 0.3.7 and 0.4.0cvs (upt to 17/02/01) worked 
flawlessly.

Hope this helps track down the problem...

Raphael

Re: [xine-user] autogen.sh fails

[Daniel Caujolle-Bert <lobadia@cl...>]

Hi Dirk,


Dirk Vornheder wrote:
> 
> Hi !
> 
> After latest version from cvs starting autogen.sh fails:
> 
--snip error messages

	You should check the following:
	-Have you all of autoconf stuff installed ?
	-Is your local cvs tree is complete ?? (check if m4 subdir
	 is non empty).
	-Have you esd installed.

	I don't know which linux distro you use, but on RH and
Debian, there're some *-devel packages, which are required to
compile xine CVS version.

Cheers.
-- 
73's de Daniel, F1RMB.

              -=- Daniel Caujolle-Bert -=- lobadia@... -=-
                        -=- f1rmb@... (AMPR NET) -=-

[xine-user] autogen.sh fails

[<DVornheder@t-...>]

Hi !

After latest version from cvs starting autogen.sh fails:

root@... /privat/tv/xine > ./autogen.sh
I am going to run ./configure with no arguments - if you wish
to pass any to it, please specify them on the ./autogen.sh command line.
processing .
aclocal: configure.in: 203: macro `AM_PATH_ESD' not found in library
automake: configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
automake: configure.in: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
automake: configure.in: installing `./missing'
configure.in: 57: required file `./ltconfig' not found
Makefile.am:30: variable `ALSA_STATIC_LIB' not defined
Makefile.am:30: variable `ESD_LIBS' not defined
autoconf: Undefined macros:
configure.in:196:       AC_MSG_RESULT(*** All of ALSA dependent parts will be 
disabled ***))
configure.in:205:        AC_MSG_RESULT(*** All of ESD dependent parts will be 
disabled ***))
configure.in:214:AC_TRY_CFLAGS("-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2",
configure.in:216:AC_TRY_CFLAGS("-fno-strict-aliasing", 
f_nsa="-fno-strict-aliasing", f_nsa="")
configure.in:217:AC_TRY_CFLAGS("-fschedule-insns2", f_si="-fschedule-insns2", 
f_si="")
configure.in:218:AC_TRY_CFLAGS("-mwide-multiply", m_wm="-mwide-multiply", 
m_wm="")
configure.in:238:        AC_TRY_CFLAGS("-mcpu=i386",
configure.in:240:          AC_TRY_CFLAGS("-march=i386",
configure.in:242:             [ AC_MSG_RESULT(** no cpu optimization supports 
**)
configure.in:245:        AC_TRY_CFLAGS("$sarchopt=k7", k7cpu="k7", 
k7cpu="i686")
configure.in:304:AC_C_ATTRIBUTE_ALIGNED
configure.in:31:  AC_MSG_RESULT(*** build forced to $XINE_BUILD ***)
configure.in:332:], [AC_MSG_RESULT(yes); ac_getopt_long=yes; 
AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GETOPT_LONG)],
configure.in:333:   [AC_MSG_RESULT(no); ac_getopt_long=no],
configure.in:334:   [AC_MSG_RESULT(no); ac_getopt_long=no])
configure.in:55:AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN
creating cache ./config.cache
./configure: line 545: syntax error near unexpected token 
`AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE("xine",'
./configure: line 545: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE("xine", 
$XINE_MAJOR.$XINE_MINOR.$XINE_SUB$XINE_PRE)'

What's wrong ?

Dirk

[xine-user] xine without gui controls?

[<stefan@al...>]

Hi,

I wonder if it is possible to use xine without the GUI controls, i.e.
using only commandline?

This is my situation: I have a low end pentium used as a set-top
movie box for dvd/vcd/mpeg using a DXR3 decoder card.

I have found a patch to use the dxr3[1] card, but I do not want
to run X on the machine, because of the overhead of X on a low-memory
machine.

So, would it be hard to add command line controls to xine?
My vision is to replace the gui with a function listening on a
fifo pipe, where commands (play/pause/next/etc) are fed, which
then could be controlled via scripts run by lirc.
XMMS uses such a technique to control the player via the
commandline.

Please CC: me as I am not subscribed to the list.

Regards,
 Stefan


[1] http://www.kuroyi.net/xine/

Re: [xine-user] DRI-cvs & Banshee

[Derrik Pates <dpates@an...>]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 cmcclan@... wrote:

> For anyone who is interested, I compiled a recent CVS
> version of DRI (2-3 days old) on top of a clean
> compilation of XFree86-4.0.2 (non-CVS, just source
> downloads) and it would appear that they have fixed
> xvideo extension support for the tdfx driver!

Surprising. XVideo crashed Xine (and anything else that tried to use
XVideo) with a SEGV right away on my machine with a V5.

> P.S. For some silly reason I've refered to the Banshee
> as Voodo2 in previous postings, when of course - it is
> Voodo3! :-/

No, it's not that either. It's a closer relative of the Voodoo3, but the
Voodoo3 was a different design. The Banshee was the "in-between" design -
the red-headed, one-armed stepchild kept under the stairs. :)

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Re: [xine-user] Xine support for .ASF files?

[Heiko Schaefer <hschaefer@ft...>]

Hi Rich,

> I thought ASF 2.0 was open but ASF 1.0 was closed (which is a pity since
> most ASF's you can download from those 'moviez' sites are 1.0). M$'s
> official docs on ASF 2.0 are mirrored on http://divx.euro.ru/

i could be wrong... my opinion is based on one or two days of surfing the
web, and particularly m$'s site. as far as i understand it, they want to
see cash from everyone implementing anything asf.

you might be interested to read what the author of 'virtualdub' wrote:

http://www.advogato.com/article/101.html

if it were legal to play asf, that would be nice of course... but i doubt
that m$ is a nicer corporation to have against oneself than the mpaa is :)

cheers,

Heiko

Re: [xine-user] Xine support for .ASF files?

[Rich Wareham <rjw57@he...>]

I thought ASF 2.0 was open but ASF 1.0 was closed (which is a pity since
most ASF's you can download from those 'moviez' sites are 1.0). M$'s
official docs on ASF 2.0 are mirrored on http://divx.euro.ru/

Rich

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Heiko Schaefer wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> > 	Is there any plan for xine to support .ASF file playback? Does it
> > already? (Am I missing something? :oP)
> 
> a legal version of xine will never be able to play .asf, as this format
> has to be licenced from microsoft. it is not an open format (even though
> microsoft once made a point of calling asf 'open')...
> 
> ...after all, you have to understand that they have to protect their
> intellectual property (such as this half baked way to wrap video and audio
> data into a single stream)  :-))
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Heiko
> 
> 
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