Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:48:57 +0200 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: VDR User <user.vdr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, lme@freebsd.org, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Subject: Re: some vdr intro/installation notes (watch/record/stream tv) Message-ID: <20110327154857.GB14192@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=S2REdFCr0B0hv_57Pa1n_=zP%2Byw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110326192838.GA68179@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <BANLkTinGfRRaAZaZH-u94ahLJj3AT66zGA@mail.gmail.com> <20110326234406.GB73041@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <BANLkTikQxh9Tx74vUKVWfT9jUkEvWGErLg@mail.gmail.com> <20110327122618.GA8923@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <BANLkTi=S2REdFCr0B0hv_57Pa1n_=zP%2Byw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 08:23:20AM -0700, VDR User wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote: > > Well it would also have to work for all the other ports that use > > libxine too, vdr is just one of them... And if it were really > > stable wouldn't they do a release? :) (Although I guess one could > > do a libxine-devel port like there is ffmpeg-devel that is a snapshot > > too...) > > Considering that vdpau for 1.1 was abandoned long ago and no > backporting is being done, I strongly urge finding a reasonable > solution to provide 1.2. The vdpau portion is stable, I can't speak > for the rest of it, though I don't really see many bug reports. You'd > think a stable release would be out by now but I don't know what it's > maintainers criteria is for that. From what I've seen, he isn't the > easiest person to contact and can be pretty slow when it comes to > merging patches and so on. Not sure how much of a priority xine-lib > is for him, or maybe it's an issue of free time. No clue. > Hmm. Well I can't do it now but if you tell me which branch to check out I'll put it on my list... > > Thanx. I wonder if that is more a `hack' than a proper fix tho > > I didn't try to find the relevant specs... > > It's definitely not a proper fix. The problem is the providers not > using flags appropriately, not following the spec, etc. We tried to > find a way to come up with a proper fix but in every attempt the spec > was being ignored or not used correctly. It's unfortunately but one > of those things you accept and move on. Yeah ok, guess I'll make that a knob then for the vdr port like I did for the iptv patches too. Thanx! :) Juergen
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