[vlc-devel] Re: Building on MacOS X (for surround debuging)

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On 18 feb 2004, at 15:09, Jean-Alexis Montignies wrote:
> Hi, Bonjour,
>
> I'd like to take a look at the bug reports 1765 (I initiated) and 1421 
> which I think is related.
>
> Is the build bootstrap system up to date?
> http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan/devtools/macosx-usr-local.tar.bz2
> (Christophe Massiot did put it initially).
>
> I didn't try the 0.7.1 test version but I guess audio support did not 
> change.
>
> Greetings,
> Jean-Alexis

Hi good to have someone else on board willing to look into this.

We no longer use /macosx-usr-local.tar.bz2 in 0.7.0 and higher.
You can read about the new procedure here:
http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/osx-compile.html

What i know so far of the issue.

- On the G5 we need to take hog before changing streams..
- VLC does a lot of Device selection etc, but it's not 100% correct. I 
believe we should just use the default output.
- The portaudio project is running into the same problems.
http://techweb.rfa.org/pipermail/portaudio/2004-February/003093.html
they also seem to be a long way to fixing the issue. I think we should 
adopt their code.
- They don't have s/pdif support. This is the big mystery. There is no 
documentation available on what is allowed or required when setting the 
digital mode of a device. We are definitely doing something illegal 
here.

I also have some code that is a bit more barebones and correct than 
what is in CVS, but not nearly finished.

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Derk-Jan Hartman (d.hartman at student.utwente dot nl)
http://home.student.utwente.nl/d.hartman

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