Need help for VLC on OS X?

[Christophe Massiot]

Hello,

Sorry for taking so long in answering you, I've been a little busy 
lately (as always...).

À (At) 21:10 +0200 21/05/2002, Pierre-Olivier Latour écrivait (wrote) :

>I'm an OS X developer (Carbon / Cocoa) with about 7 years of programming on
>the Mac.
>I'm very impressed with VLC: it can read MPG files QuickTime is not even
>able to read, it use way less processing power for decoding MPG1, can read
>DVD, DVD files, etc... Great work! :-)

Well thanks, I have had a look at your program X-Movie, and I must 
say I'm quite impressed too... It's far more advanced than what we 
(poor UNIX programmers) have managed to do in a few months. Help is 
always welcome, we are an open source project...

>I was actually working on a Cocoa QuickTime player because the one provided
>by Apple sucks (see enclosed application: it's not finished). So I might
>help developing the Cocoa interface. However, I don't have any knowledge
>using the terminal to compile and build app, and I don't want to learn ;).
>If the OS X port use Project Builder / Interface Builder, I'll try to build

Well currently we rely on Terminal.app/Makefiles. The reason behind 
this is that we don't want to maintain a thousand different build 
systems for every architecture. We have ports on UNIX, BeOS, Win32, 
Mac OS X, QNX, and having a separate build system for every platform 
would mean a lot of work for us. And our Makefiles are quite 
powerful, regarding dependencies and plug-ins.

So for the time being, we'll stick to Makefiles. That's not 
complicated however, you basically have to open Terminal.app and type 
:
./configure
make

There is a way to execute that inside PowerBuilder, I'll have a look 
at it later.

>a cool interface for VLC. The best would be to create a separate library for
>the VLC Core, that I would simply import into the project.

That is also in the works, and quite advanced (though not public yet).

>Can you send me the source code + project files of the OS X port so I can
>have a look?

Sure, VLC is GPL (which means the code you write will have to be GPL 
too, BTW), and you can get the latest cvs code from :

http://www.videolan.org/cvs.html

The project file is in extras/MacOSX

>PS: Etant français moi meme, on peut parler français si ca aide.

Most of the discussions happen in English in vlc-devel at videolan.org 
(because many developers aren't French-speaking). I encourage you to 
subscribe to this mailing-list.

We can also discuss that on irc.openprojects.net/#videolan, where 
most VLC developers hang around.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.

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