On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Siggi Langauf wrote:
> I'm maintaining the xine video player packages and after some, umm, > difficulties with several ports, I'd like to do it better this time. > > I'd greatly appreciate any help testing the new packages and, even more > important, keep them as portable as possible. > Therefore, I've set up an apt-gettable source archive for easy testing at > http://people.debian.org/~siggi/xine-preview/ > > the sources.list line is: > deb-src http://people.debian.org/%7Esiggi/ xine-preview/ > > you'll find two (source) packages there: > > xine-lib: contains the player engine as a library ("libxine") > xine-ui: provides a default GUI with skins and stuff > > They _should_ compile on all kinds of architectures, but as you need > console access to test them properly, I can't do that job. > > So if you just get it running: fine! Nice if you'd send me a note. > If you need some minor patches: even better! Send them to me! I'll add > them to CVS as quickly as possible. > If there are any severe showstoppers: hmmm, notify me, or maybe even > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, so we can find a solution. Testing done! Everything worked fine, although I didn't get a chance to try the sound portions (my sound card is not in the box currently). I have a decent speed Alpha (PCA56 533MHz SX), but very little RAM (128MB), so I'm sure it could perform better. I'm curious to see if this works better on EV6 if I compiled it as such (any takers?). C
