[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer XMMS-embedded-qtopia plugin - crosspost from mplayer-users

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 12:13:04PM +0200, Balatoni Denes wrote:
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> Hi!
> This was posted to mplayer-users a minute ago, but I realized, that
> it fits here better probably.
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> So there is a port of xmms to palmtops that use Qtopia
> (have a look at: http://people.inf.elte.hu/isten/xmms.html).
> I would like to make an mplayer plugin to it, so that
> xmms+mplayer could be a perfect all round media player.
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> Do you have any advice of how in general this could be done,
> also perhaps in a way that will allow new versions of mplayer to
> be incorporated easily ? My first idea was to rape mplayer.c,
> turn it into an xmms plugin, but when a new version of mplayer
> comes, it has to be done again and again.

This is a bad idea since you essentially lose most of the benefits of
mplayer. Why not just run a linux- or bsd-based system on your palmtop
and compile mplayer for it? Or just fix up mplayer so it compiles
without requiring (much) posix stuff or make a simple support lib to
emulate the posixish functionality it wants. This whole plugin talk is
just silly, though -- it doesn't make porting any easier!

Rich