Which Xine to require?

[Neil Stevens]

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On Sunday September 08, 2002 02:34, Ewald Snel wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
> [...]
>
> > > I'm not sure when xine 0.9.14 will be released, but I think it might
> > > be after KDE 3.1 (final) is released. KDE-3.1 would require a CVS
> > > copy of xine if we want to use the new API in that case.
> >
> > OK.  0.9.13 sounds fine then.  Do you want to fix the configure check
> > accordingly, or should I?
>
> I'm currently using xine 0.9.11 and it seems to be working fine. I will
> try some other (older) versions of xine before changing the configure
> check.

Well, If old versions work, great.  But at configure-time we need to 
disallow 0.9.14, or else people will just get compile time errors and file 
bug reports. :-)

> [...]
>
> > I've made a couple minor commits you might want to look at.  I changed
> > KVideoWidget to prevent it from emitting an adaptSize when it isn't
> > embedding a video.  I also changed xine_artsplug not to play() on
> > loadMedia().
>
> I think the height calculation of the video is not completely accurate
> in NormalSize mode (Kaboodle). This produces thin black bars at the left
> and right edge of the video widget.

I'll look.

> > Now the only issues I have left are relatively minor:  I'd like
> > KVideoWidget to disable its size and fullscreen KActions when not
> > embedding a video, and I'd like the fullscreen widget to honor the
> > accelerators for those KActions.
>
> I really hope you can fix these accelerators. I have tried to fix this
> bug by using QWidget::setFocusProxy(), but unfortunately that didn't
> work. :(

I tried the exact same thing a couple months ags, too.  That sure is 
frustrating to try to get to work.

> > Oh, happy days.  Hee hee hee...  I'm thinking I should get the Xine
> > people to put up a screenshot of their code running in Kaboodle:
> > http://www.freekde.org/neil/kaboodle/snapshot-1.6.png
>
> Nice. :)
>
> It would also be great to use the xine "mms://" capabilities. That would
> allow streaming video (Windows Media) in Konqueror using the embedded
> video player. The only problem is that the VideoPlayObject is only
> called with "file://" URLs, other protocols are handled internally
> (somehow).
>
> Is it possible to disable this and handle URLs by the xinePlayObject
> directly?

I think it's a feature that aRts only sees file urls.  That means 
KPlayObject is using kio to connect to remote servers, getting KDE 
proxies, ipv6 support, and so on.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
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