[HN Gopher] The xine hacker's guide (2003)
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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]
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