From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 23 07:59:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D53A16A40F; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:59:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from netchild@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (jojo.ms-net.de [84.16.236.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F2643D58; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:59:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from netchild@FreeBSD.org) Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (p54A5CCF4.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.204.244]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9N7t37h097391; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:55:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from netchild@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (webmail.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.102]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k9N7xZHg060092; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:59:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from netchild@FreeBSD.org) Received: from pslux.cec.eu.int (pslux.cec.eu.int [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:59:35 +0200 Message-ID: <20061023095935.669kwwzc2s4co8o0@webmail.leidinger.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:59:35 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Mikhail Teterin References: <200610221649.26674@aldan> <20061022212942.GO91212@graf.pompo.net> <200610221750.45645@aldan> In-Reply-To: <200610221750.45645@aldan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.3) / FreeBSD-7.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:13:17 +0000 Cc: Thierry Thomas , multimedia@FreeBSD.org, shaun@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please, test new port: helixplugin X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:59:48 -0000 Quoting Mikhail Teterin (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 > > 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): > > < 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