Hi all, I am writing to tell you my experiences with the DXR3 and freevo. My first attempt at using this combination was successful on a Pentium-233. I was using Gentoo, but i had hand compiled a couple things including freevo. When I upgraded the box to an Athlon-700, I decided to start from scratch with Gentoo. I had discovered the gentoo freevo ebuild, and wanted to build off of that. Since most of the packages required are included with gentoo's packaging system, with mmpython and pylirc being included in the freevo ebuilds. All that was left to do was get libsdl compiled with dxr3 support. According to the Wiki, you need to use the cvs of libsdl. Sorry to say, but that is not true. I was able to use libsdl 1.2.5 and I am still using it successfully. In fact, when you use 1.2.5, you don't have any problems with the patch not working. Needless to say, I modified the libsdl ebuild in portage to add some dxr3 support. While dxr3 is not an official USE flag, this ebuild looks for it and will compile libsdl accordingly. I've been meaning to add the TTF patch as well, just haven't had the chance.
What I'm getting at here, is installing freevo was easy. And most things just work. I was using 1.3.4 successfully for a while, but have recently upgraded to a later snapshot to get xine support working. Let me say with a snapshot and a xine-ui cvs build, I am able to use fbxine for dvds, and it works perfectly. If you really want dxr3 support, I suggest you really look into compiling many of the dependencies yourself. (freevo source, mplayer, libsdl) When it was all said and done, I never had to link libraries to the freevo directory, even when using the non-ebuild snapshot I have now. (BTW Dischi, I dont think the freevo-snapshot ebuild works anymore. :) Alas, everything works smoothly for me. Let me suggest you migrate away from an RPM-based system if this is a standalone machine, or if you have the ability. I have attached a my libsdl ebuild. (Dischi, feel free to add it to the freevo ebuilds.) enjoy, -atom ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
