Xine supports digital audio extraction

[Derick Centeno]

Now that you found and played with xine activate goom within it; it runs
spectacularly with a 233MHz G3 -- I can't imagine what it would look
like on a modern Mac.  I'll hold off my imagination, but meanwhile I do
you you try it.  Stick a cd in and let goom fly.  You are in for quite a
treat a real-time marraige or menage a trois of mathematics, music and
art.

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 11:49, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> Xine supports digital audio extraction, so it is a consideration for
> modern Macs. 
> 
> Xine is the "all singing, all dancing" free multimedia player.  
> >From its own web page:
> 
>         What is xine?
>         xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and
>         VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and
>         MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed
>         over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common
>         multimedia formats available - and some of the most uncommon
>         formats, too.
> 
> 
> How to make it work
> --------------------
> For the pure at heart, there is the source code tarballs from the Xine
> website. For the adventurous, there are YDL-4 specific RPM's and SRPM's
> available from:
> 
> 	http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/yellowdog/
> 
> Using these RPM's is a leap of faith since neither you nor Terrasoft
> built them. So..., proceed with caution.
> 
> If you take the leap you will find that Xine has a bunch of dependencies
> that are satisfied by loading the following:
> 
>         aalib-1.4.0-5.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
>         aalib-devel-1.4.0-5.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
>         caca-utils-0.9-1.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
>         imlib2-1.1.0-2.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
>         imlib2-devel-1.1.0-2.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
>         libcaca-devel-0.9-1.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
>         libdvdcss-1.2.8-4.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
>         libdvdcss-devel-1.2.8-4.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
>         libfame-0.9.1-1.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
>         libfame-devel-0.9.1-1.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
>         libtheora-devel-1.0-0.alpha3.2.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
>         xine-0.99.2-1.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
>         xine-lib-1.0.0-0.17.rc8.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
>         xine-lib-devel-1.0.0-0.17.rc8.0.yd4.fr.ppc.rpm
> 
> Note that the precompiled version of xine is 0.99.2, whereas the latest
> and greatest is 0.99.3.
> 
> I took the leap [:-)] and got xine to work. I found a few things that
> annoyed me:
> (1) moving the mouse over xine controls did not bring up explanation
> dialogs,
> (2) the help files are missing,
> (3) if you opt not to display the "video window" you cannot minimize the
> application,
> (4) xine segfaulted a couple of times while I was randomly exploring the
> controls.
> 
> What I did about it
> -------------------
> I downloaded the SRPM from freshrpms.net, unpacked it, and took a look
> at the SPEC file. Having identified what source file was being used,  I
> downloaded the latest tarball from xinehq.de. I modified the SPEC file
> to use the new tarball, and kicked off "rpmbuild -bb xine.spec'. The
> build completed without incident.
> 
> The newly built version resolved issue (1). Issues (2) and (3) remain. I
> have not yet experienced a segfault. Time will tell.
> 
> 
> -Joseph
>