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The xine hacker's guide (2003)

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Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)

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Post by anthk »

goldenpreppy8 wrote: post #9
muyuu wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Kaffeine for easy TV channel seeking.

Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)

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Post by t-3 »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #6
muyuu wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's been superseded by mpv.

Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)

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Post by mananaysiempre »

iotku wrote: post #7
muyuu wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And Celluloid (ex GNOME MPV) is a pretty snazzy GNOME wrapper for it.

Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)

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Post by Nux »

muyuu wrote: post #3
anta40 wrote: post #2

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…

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 use mplayer almost every day, still. One of the constants in my life. :)

Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)

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Post by InCityDreams »

komadori wrote: post #4

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.

Genuine question: how do you regard getting a degree in CS at that time [given the unbelievable changes in tech since then]?

Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)

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Post by [deleted] »

M_bara wrote: post #5
muyuu wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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Re: The xine hacker's guide (2003)

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Post by TEP_KimIlSung »

muyuu wrote: post #3
anta40 wrote: post #2

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…

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.

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