Mac OSX Port Speed/GUI/My help

[Florian G. Pflug]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:30:05AM +0000, Luke Sands wrote:
> 
> Vlc OSX Port Team,
> 
> Disregard my last post, with the subject "Mac OSX Port (vlc-0.2.83"
>   because I manged to get it to work, I forgot to install it in root
> 
> Speed:
> Great program, and I respect your efforts, however the speed of DVD 
> playback, in my case atleast is horrible. Is there anyway to speed up 
> the playback (in the terminal), at the moment its so slow its not 
> usable. thanks in advance.
> 
> GUI:
> In my case, the GUI doesn't work at all so I've decided to put my 2p's 
> worth into the project  (only if you want me to of course..) by creating 
> a new OSX GUI / top app which will interface with the shell instead of 
> having the unix part built in. I hope it would help other osx users, but 
> if you don't need one, i'll just make it for myself, cus' i sure need 
> it- i'm cross with the terminal already ; ) I'm planning to make the app 
> in carbon, cus' I've just started UNIX shell and cocoa programming and 
> i'm not sure were to begin : ) and my final question, how to you control 
> sound volume, play, stop the dvd etc from the terminal?
Hi

I am working at speeding up the video output at the moment. This involves
using quicktime (because this is the only way to get a YUV-Overlay).

I think I know how to do it now - I am working at the implementation right
now (quicktime gives me a hard time though... most documentation seems to be
written for OS9, still talking about passing handles instead of
pointers, and stuff like that).

I think it would be great if you could provie a better GUI. I am using Cocoa
for the video output at the moment - mostly because I don't have any MacOs
Background, and Cocoa is much easier.

If you should decide to do a built-in GUI rather than an extra app (would
have advantages I think - otherwise the GUI would be quite limited, I
guess), we should use the same library - either Cocoa or Carbon.

I don't really care which one I use, since I just need to open one window,
and create a QuickDraw surface within it. The rest of the work is done via
QuickTime anyway.

greetings, Florian Pflug