Xine Multimedia Player for DSL


Forum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated)
Topic: Xine Multimedia Player for DSL
started by: ke4nt1

Posted by ke4nt1 on June 13 2004,06:49
{EDIT}
Xine player for DSL is ready for testing....
See links for screenshots and downloading below...
{/EDIT}

I am working on a .dsl file for Xine Player. I started building it from apt-get installed xine-ui files

On my HDinstall, Xine from apt-get works great... It even resizes the screen with wma's, mpg's, avi's, !!
(something I couldn't get MPlayer to do with XVesa)

When I was installing the apt-get sources for xine-ui, it wouldn't install libxv1.....deb, claiming that xlibs already had a libXv.so... installed.

So, I cd to /var/cache/apt/archives , found the new libxv1...deb file, and ran dpkg --contents  libxv1.....deb
It showed the libXv.so.1.0 and symlink libXv.so.1 files inside. So, I ran dpkg -i --force-all libxv1....deb, and it installed..

Xine runs!!  Hooray...   but later....

after building the .dsl file from this successfully running copy... I get errors when trying to run xine.dsl from LiveCD about
libXtst6.so, which wasn't even one of the files installed, or included in my original install.. In fact, I can't even find it
on my HD or in my .xine.dsl ??

Now, if I cd to my backup copy of libxv1....deb, and repeat the dpkg -i --force-all libxv1.... , the xine player works!
With no error about this libXtst6.so file anymore....

Is there a way to force the new libXv.so.1.0 to install over the xlibs copy of libXv.so.1.0 when installing the .dsl file,
so the xine.dsl will work ?

Or, is this already happening, and something else is
occurring when I force the libxv1....deb to install ?

Or, am I going to regret this later when xlibs needs to call libXv.so.1.0 for a task ?

<Your feedback here>

73
ke4nt

Posted by TyphoonMentat on June 13 2004,07:00
I think this is probably already happening if you've put libXv.so.1.0 in the same place in the .DSL as where it is on your system - myDSL automatically overwrites files (correct me if I'm wrong). If not, then you can just run a script to delete the old one before installation of the new one I suppose.
Posted by roberts on June 13 2004,07:21
Quote
after building the .dsl file from this successfully running copy... I get errors when trying to run xine.dsl from LiveCD about libXtst6.so, which wasn't even one of the files installed, or included in my original install.. In fact, I can't even find it on my HD or in my .xine.dsl ??


That file, libXtst6.so, is in gnu-utils.dsl.  So, try loading gnu-utils first and see what happens, or extract that single file and add it to your xine.dsl

Posted by ke4nt1 on June 13 2004,15:19
Well, your right on the money again, roberts...
xine.dsl runs just fine from my HDInstall.

...in my best Beaver Cleaver voice...
     "Gee Wally, your SWELL!"

I chose the extended install for my HDInstall.
And loading gnu-utils.dsl into my LiveCD session
gives me the same result.

Back to it..

ke4nt

Posted by ke4nt1 on June 13 2004,19:41
Ok...give it a try, folks...
I made some last minute changes, and removed the desktop icon.
It was behaving badly. Also, try the screen resizing on several types
of files, wma,mpg,avi, etc...  I didn't include the libcss yet, so
encrypted DVD's may not play. still testing myself..
Leave notes, and I will add files to it as they are requested.
Here is a screenshot of a dvd in use.. it is playing while the screenshot is being taken.
I reduced the quality to make an easy download.. Screen res is 1280x1024
< http://www.creativesound.com/ares/xine3.jpg >

73
ke4nt

Posted by John on June 14 2004,01:21
It is in the repository now.
Powered by Ikonboard 3.1.2a
Ikonboard © 2001 Jarvis Entertainment Group, Inc.