From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 20 18:19:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E7916A4E2 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:19:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Matt@iXsystems.com) Received: from smtp105.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp105.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43AA343D45 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:19:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Matt@iXsystems.com) Received: (qmail 51348 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2006 18:19:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (mattoo@pacbell.net@70.231.148.52 with plain) by smtp105.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Aug 2006 18:19:10 -0000 Message-ID: <44E8A79B.6050702@iXsystems.com> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:19:07 -0700 From: Matt Olander Organization: iXsystems User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: porting the RealPlayer] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:19:11 -0000 Hi all, I met with a developer of the Real Player at Linux World. She says they would *love* to port a native version of the Real player to FreeBSD. Yay! She even showed me that they have an older FreeBSD dev environment set up and are ready to start to try compiling it for release after we get it up to date. We need a couple of FreeBSD experts to assist with questions/expertise/feedback to make sure this gets finished ;-) Please send me your name/email off list and I'll reply to her with a shortlist of who can help them. Thanks! -matt -------- Original Message -------- Hey Matt - It was great to meet you at Linux World. FreeBSD is near to my heart, although I'm not totally knowledgeable on it, sadly. I'm a FreeBSD fan to the point of wanting to do the RealPlayer port to FreeBSD myself when I first started this job.. but.. they piled me down with meetings and spec-writing before I even got a chance to see it compile once. Which is why I'm so excited that you were so receptive to getting the RealPlayer on FreeBSD. I've been talking to the guy who runs our build environments and he's checking to see if anyone else is using the FreeBSD 5.0 box. If not, we'll upgrade it asap. Do you have any recommendations on hardware for a FreeBSD 6.1 build machine? Also, we're currently only running nightly builds for the stable branch on FreeBSD. Do you think we should be running the current branch as well? That's where all the new functionality is going - like playlists and Windows Media (ahem.. if you have a license for it). Depending on how long porting work takes, FreeBSD may want to just skip the currently released player and go for all the new technology. Thanks so much for your offer of help and any thoughts you have would be greatly appreciated. -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113 Fax: (408)943-4101 --