Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:59:35 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: Thierry Thomas <thierry@FreeBSD.org>, multimedia@FreeBSD.org, shaun@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please, test new port: helixplugin Message-ID: <20061023095935.669kwwzc2s4co8o0@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <200610221750.45645@aldan> References: <200610221649.26674@aldan> <20061022212942.GO91212@graf.pompo.net> <200610221750.45645@aldan>
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Quoting Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com> (from Sun, 22 Oct =20 2006 17:50:45 -0400): > On Sunday 22 October 2006 17:29, Thierry Thomas wrote: > =3D BTW, have you read netchild's blog? > =3D > =3D<http://bsdblogs.droso.org/netchild/2006/10/19/native-realplayer-for-fr= eebsd/> > > The objectives are different :-) I'm just building the plugin part -- it w= ill > use, whatever is known as "realplay" (or "hxplay") on the system. > > The following is the text I tried to add as a follow-up to Alexander's blo= g, > but could not (presumably, due to glitches of the web-site): > > <<How is this different from the already existing port of > multimedia/helixplayer ? > > It would seem, the existing port is only missing the few codecs, which Rea= l > can not or would not open-source. Yes, that's more or less the difference between helixplayer and RealPlayer. > I'd like to propose, that you concentrate on porting these codecs ONLY and > rely on the already existing multimedia/helixplayer port already being the= re > (RUN_DEPENDS, maybe BUILD_DEPENDS). Have a look at the way Real is distributing this for Linux or Solaris. =20 And they do the work, not I or someone else @FreeBSD.org. We just have =20 a look at the logs and tell them the cause of the problems we see. So =20 we are locked to their standard way of distributing RealPlayer. Bye, Alexander. > Considering my (pending) multimedia/helixplugin, you, probably, should not > bother with the browser plugin either... > > Good luck! Yours,>> > > =09-mi > > --=20 http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137 We are all born mad. Some remain so. =09=09-- Samuel Beckett
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