[haiku] Hosting VLC+libdvdcss ? (was: Re: Full-time Haiku users?)

  • From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 08:12:07 +0000

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 17:24, Cian Duffy <myob87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 5 May 2010 16:34, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 2010-05-05 at 17:22:45 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Cian Duffy <myob87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > On 1 May 2010 14:24, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > >  In the really rare occasion that I want to play some game, watch
>> > > > a DVD or play a Blu-Ray disk, I have a Windows 7 box.
>> > > http://gaelstar.com/beos/vlc-0.8.6i-gcc2-20091116.zip
>> > >
>> > > Thats a haiku-native VLC that will play DVDs under Haiku. Doesn't
>> > > play
>> > > Blu-Ray or Windows games though!
>> >
>> > Out of curiosity, what needed to be changed to make that work?
>>
>> That would be very interesting, indeed. :-) Also, are there any known
>> regressions with this version compared to the package we have been using
>> for ages?
>>
>
> There shouldn't be any, but if anyone finds any, let me know. From my time
> 'maintaining' VLC for BeOS, most regressions appeared in formats I never
> used and had nothing to test with!
>
> @Axel - newer libdvdcss/libdvdnav compiled on Haiku was the only major
> changes. Newer support libraries all round where useable

IIRC, there may be hosting issues in the US for this. Would it be
better to store it on one of the hetzner VM's?

--mmadia

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