[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] proposal techdoc porting-status.txt

[Felix Buenemann]

Hi,

I've written a small techdoc that gives a view about porting status and what 
needs to be done.

What do you think and what additions do you have?

If it's ok I'll add it to cvs - file attached...
-- 
Best Regards,
        Atmos
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- MPlayer Developer - http://mplayerhq.hu/ -
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Porting status:
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This file should tells you what architectures and or OSes MPlayer/MEncoder
are currently ported to.

We are always happy about ports to new archs/OSes or improvements to the
current ones, so if you can help us, read patches.txt and happy hacking! ;-)

Of course we are also grateful about hardware/software donations that help
us to do porting or improvements of ports ourselves. (The MPlayer core
developers currently mainly own x86 hardware.)

If you would like to donate or have porting questions, feel free to contanct
the MPlayer developers via the mplayer-dev-eng mailing-list (more info on
www.mplayerhq.hu).

Here is a list of the architectures/OSes, MPlayer/MEncoder currently run on
and also some notes or the points that still need to be done or improved:
(Names in brackets [] mean someone is already working on that)

OSes:
~~~~~
-> Linux
 * main development OS

-> FreeBSD (insert main porters name,email)

-> NetBSD (...)

-> OpenBSD (...)
 * preliminary, is this finished?

-> BSD/i (Steven M. Schulz <sms at 2bsd.com>)

-> Darwin/MacOS X (Atmos, Justin Hallet <justin at caisnet.com>)
 + minor fixes (iconv, sockets) -- will soon be included [Justin Hallet]
 + VCD support (check videolans vlc/plugins/vcd/cdromtools.[ch]) [Justin Hallet]
 + DVD support to libmpdvdkit [Justin Hallet]

-> Cygwin (Atmos)
 + add an automagical fix of sdl-configure's compile flags (contact Atmos for
   more info)
 + write vo_directx for hw accelerated yuv overlay (code reference eg. videolan)
 + write ao_directx using direct sound as alternative to oss (low priority)
 + port vidix (needs special device driver for NT/2k/XP and 9x/Me)

-> QNX

-> Solaris
 + test/fix vidix (only solaris/x86)

-> OS/2
 * status? usable?

-> Minix (???)

[Anything missing?]

Architectures:
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-> x86 IA-32
-> x86-64
-> IA-64
-> Alpha
-> Sparc
-> PowerPC
-> ARM
 * up-to-date?

[Anything missing? TeaCup, PSX ;-)]

[Last edited 2002-05-24]

Thank you!

   Atmos