From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 27 16:06:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD76106564A; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:06:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9591A8FC0A; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:06:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 690611E00213; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:06:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p2RFmweb014391; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:48:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id p2RFmvmn014390; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:48:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox) From: Juergen Lock Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:48:57 +0200 To: VDR User Message-ID: <20110327154857.GB14192@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <20110326192838.GA68179@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <20110326234406.GB73041@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <20110327122618.GA8923@triton8.kn-bremen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, lme@freebsd.org, Juergen Lock , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: some vdr intro/installation notes (watch/record/stream tv) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:06:18 -0000 On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 08:23:20AM -0700, VDR User wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Juergen Lock 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