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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> Xine claims to play CDs, DVDs, and streaming audio.

I don't like it as well as MPlayer. It needs many different
things:

# ldd /usr/bin/xine
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40024000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40034000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4003d000)
        libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x40054000)
        libxineutils.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxineutils.so.0 (0x4007a000)
        libxine.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxine.so.0 (0x40084000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x400a0000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0x400af000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x400c4000)
        libXtst.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6 (0x400c7000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400cd000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0x40198000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x401bb000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

This version I have ^ has trouble playing files that MPlayer works
correctly with.

> I found xine packages at linuxpackages.net.  They seem to be up to 
> 1.0.1 on xine-lib (for 9.1-10.1) - is that needed in addition to 
> xine?  I found gxine 0.3.3-0.4.4 for SW9.0 9.1 and 10.1 And PLAIN 
> xine 0.4.3 for SW 7 with a two star rating (four is better).

xine is the usual reference to the standard frontend, which is a GUI
which runs under X11. xine-lib is the actual player.
 
> Download link:  http:/www.linuxpackages.net/download.php?id=494
> 
> To play dvds with xine they advise 400MHz PII, also libcss and dvd 
> plugin 'available from this site'

Usually advised with any player.

> In order to download with lynx from this site I had to edit 
> lynx.cfg by addinging REFERER_WITH_QUERY:PARTIAL as instructed when 
> I tried to download.  Lynx.config says the sites requiring this are 
> not properly constructed and this is a workaround.
> 
> The xine directory for SW7 contains:
> dvdlibcss.tgz  Feb 23 2001 26K  - the parts you need to add.

Needed for commercial DVDs. MPlayer has this built-in.

> xine-0.3.7.tgz Feb 23 2001 482K - older version
> xine.tgz       May 19 2001 527K - more recent version (4 years old)
> 
> I will try to get this working with BL2.  It offers a choice of four
> skins with lots of png files, totalling 628K.  It seems to be gui only.
> 
> Tho the site says the only dependency is libz, ldd produced a page 
> full of dependencies:  The usal ones needed for other X programs, 
> libjpeg, png and tiff, but also (I don't have these):
> libImlib.so.1  - 186K in /gtk1/imlib.tgz

For loading images.

> libungif.so.4    - 104K in /gtk1/libungif.tgz
> libesd.so.0     - 30K in /gtk1/esound.tgz

ESD. Blah.

> libaudiofile.so.0. - 66K in /gtk1/audiofil.tgz
> 
> Supported audio formats include OSS and ALSO and artsd and esd but 
> esd is NOT RECOMMENDED.

esd is fairly high latency and has serious sync problems.

> Maybe it will work without that library at least.

Doubtful. If it's listed in ldd it won't run without it.

> Xine binary expands to 874K, plus about 150K per ski skins and 100K 
> of plugin .so libraries.  If you need to add the above four 
> dependency libraries it is another 350K or so, totalling about 
> 1.5M, much smaller than mplayer despite being gui.  Plus 
> documentation.
> 
> Can I delete all the .la files and keep just .so if I am not 
> compiling for some program based on xine?

Yes. .la files are not even needed by all compiling situations.

> I will install the above libraries and test this on a realaudio 
> file (which I would rather play from the command line with mplayer).

I doubt that it has very good realaudio support.

> The details say it supports mpg ogg wav realaudio voc vox png etc.
> No mention of Windows media format, but they are working on a Windows xine.

IIRC Windows media is limited to audio.

David
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