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

[Balatoni Denes]

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Hi!

$$$ This is a bad idea since you essentially lose most of the benefits of
$$$ 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!
I don't hava a palmtop, but this is for the sharp zaurus, which runs
a full linux kernel with the usual libraries etc.
The main reason for a plugin is mplayer gui is using gtk, but on the
palmtop there is only libqt. It is possible to write a qt gui around
mplayer, but then there will be two media players, and that is not the
most comfortbale. So essentially I think I will write a simple gui that
runs mplayer -slave, and make this gui a plugin in xmms. So then
xmms can play movies and anything else - there is still two
mediaplayers, but not noticable by the end-user.

What benefits of mplayer would be lost this way ?

best regards
Denes


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