[HN Gopher] The xine hacker's guide (2003) ___________________________________________________________________ The xine hacker's guide (2003) Author : Lammy Score : 38 points Date : 2023-04-01 04:26 UTC (18 hours ago) (HTM) web link (web.mit.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (web.mit.edu) | karauzum wrote: | I'm feeling old right now, this and also XMMS. Good old days, so | much memories... | komadori wrote: | That brings back memories! I used to have commit privileges for | xine and worked mainly on hardware acceleration for | Solaris/SPARC. | | When I started university the internet access in the student | accommodation was only via HTTP proxy, and I couldn't access | Sourceforge or Blastwave properly any more. So, perversely, my | Computer Science degree forced me out of open-source for a while | :-P. | InCityDreams wrote: | Genuine question: how do you regard getting a degree in CS at | that time [given the unbelievable changes in tech since then]? | anthk wrote: | Xine, w32codecs, XawTV, AleVT, TVTime, NXTvEPG.. good times. Now | allmost all of these are dead. | | I think no one updated TVTime for DVB. It was a supreme TV tuner | and viewer. | LeoPanthera wrote: | Tvheadend is alive: https://tvheadend.org | anthk wrote: | It's like VDR? | anta40 wrote: | Man. "xine" is a name I haven't heard for many years. Wonder how | many people are still using it. | | As as university student in 2006, fast internet access was a | still relatively pricey thing. I already knew how to do basic | things in Debian, and would have similar Linux experience at | home. Surpsingly, Slackware (3 CDs at that time) provided all the | apps (C compiler, LaTeX etc) needed for doing homework. And of | course, a multimedia player called "xine" was bundled. Playing | all the ripped videos wasn't problem at all. | | I assume the development was practically halted years ago and no | fork? | | Update: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xine/files/ | | Oh it's still alive :) | goldenpreppy8 wrote: | Memories:) I remember Xine having a plug-in architecture, which | would of allowed developers to add new features and | functionality to the software and create "forks". Think its | safe to assume it did many times since xine was open-source, | under GNU General Public License. | muyuu wrote: | Xine, mplayer, divx, xvid, etc these things were a lot more | temporary than I anticipated, but it does make sense when you | take into account the competitive advantage of newer codecs, | hardware acceleration, etc. And of course the death of the CD-R | and the DVD in the mainstream. | AlecSchueler wrote: | I still use MPlayer every day. I thought it had similar | traction with Linux users as vlc. | blensor wrote: | mplayer user here as well. Every time I start a video from | the commandline I use mplayer. | t-3 wrote: | It's been superseded by mpv. | anthk wrote: | You can have both. Mplayer2 it's lighter on older | devices. | iotku wrote: | As far as I know mpv is descended from mplayer and still | plays a pretty big part in the media player landscape these | days. | mananaysiempre wrote: | And Celluloid (ex GNOME MPV) is a pretty snazzy GNOME | wrapper for it. | goldenpreppy8 wrote: | Did any of you guys use Totem, Kaffeine? Man I just looked | this up, XINE was integrated into these media players. Man i | used those two alot back in the day. I was in college, so | that means must of been like in 2001 or something... | anthk wrote: | Kaffeine for easy TV channel seeking. | doubled112 wrote: | What a flashback! | | I don't miss the days of bouncing between media backends | hoping one would play a media file better than another. | Nux wrote: | I use mplayer almost every day, still. One of the constants | in my life. :) | M_bara wrote: | Brings back memories... along with skinning XMMS. Good times | [deleted] | TEP_KimIlSung wrote: | [dead] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-04-01 23:00 UTC)