The xine hacker's guide (2003)
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The xine hacker's guide (2003)
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Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)
#2Man. "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 :)
Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)
#3Man. "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…
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.
Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)
#4That 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.
Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)
#5Man. "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…
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.
Brings back memories… along with skinning XMMS. Good times
Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)
#6Man. "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…
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.
I still use MPlayer every day. I thought it had similar traction with Linux users as vlc.
Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)
#7Man. "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…
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.
As far as I know mpv is descended from mplayer and still plays a pretty big part in the media player landscape these days.
Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)
#8Man. "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…
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.
Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)
#9Man. "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…
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.
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...
Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)
#10Xine, 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.