[vlc-devel] Fwd: Re: ZodTTD: Home Of Homebrew Contact Us Form - VLC for iPhone

[Pavlov Konstantin]

----- Forwarded message from zodttd at zodttd.com -----

Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:24:42 -0400
From: zodttd at zodttd.com
To: "thresh @ ZodTTD: Home Of Homebrew" <thresh at videolan.org>
Subject: Re: ZodTTD: Home Of Homebrew Contact Us Form - VLC for iPhone
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138

Hi thresh!

Most the changes were dirty code hacks to get my GUI to work with VLC. 
Strangely enough I had to disable the actual reading of stdin since it 
couldnt be read when run through within the iPhone/iPod Touch's 
"Springboard" launcher/frontend.The RC interface for stdin worked fine when 
running the VLC program from SSH. Since there was no decent SDL port for 
the iPhone I had to add audio and input capability to SDL. I then had to 
compile libraries such as libiconv, libmpeg2dec, etc. I have a "clean" SDL 
port made, but the VLC one integrated the GUI I made straight into it, due 
to some limitations I faced.

One of the issues I ran into was the handling of the command line 
arguments. I probably was implementing argv wrong, but when I passed it my 
constructed argv, VLC didnt interpret it correctly and would fail to read 
argv[0]. I currently have the command line parsing disabled within my app, 
as my GUI lands up calling the built in VLC's main() with its own 
parameters in a weird fashion. I will fix that up so parameters can be 
passed through command line straight to VLC, I just needed a bit more time. 
Like I said though, most likely not VLC's code, but mine.

Most of VLC compiled and ran without a hitch. I did the entire port in less 
than 2 days. Though the code I did may reflect that, it can easily be 
cleaned up, and will be.

I will be providing the source via my github.com  repository under the 
username "zodttd" as required. Is there anything I can do to help get this 
version done a bit more properly? I'd love some help straight from the 
source and will maintain it well.

This all came to a large surprise, I didn't quite expect such a response 
from fans to be as overwhelming as it is. I plan on getting FLAC, XviD, and 
other decoding done today. Since I'm fairly new to video encoding and 
decoding, this has been a big adventure for me. I'm really enjoying this 
project!

Is there an IRC channel where I can reach you at? Or perhaps an IM client 
account?

Thanks so much, I've been worried today that the VLC team would be upset 
over the news!
ZodTTD
zodttd at zodttd.com
http://www.zodttd.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "thresh @ ZodTTD: Home Of Homebrew" 
<thresh at videolan.org>
To: <zodttd at zodttd.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:14 AM
Subject: ZodTTD: Home Of Homebrew Contact Us Form - VLC for iPhone


> The following message was sent to you via the ZodTTD: Home Of Homebrew 
> Contact Us form by thresh ( mailto:thresh at videolan.org ).
>
> --------------------------------
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm from videolan team.  Were there any changes you made for VLC tree to 
> be buildable for iPhone? I suppose you also wrote a GUI for it.
>
> --------------------------------
>
> Referring Page: http://www.zodttd.com/
> IP Address: 82.204.217.101
> User Name: Unregistered
> User ID: 0
> Email: thresh at videolan.org
>
>
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> signature database 3157 (20080604) __________
>
> The message was checked by ESET Smart Security.
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----- End forwarded message -----

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