Porting XBMC to Mac OS X (Leopard) - Developers only!

**yuvalt** · 2007-12-13 23:00

elan Wrote:The nice thing about it is that it is portable across a bunch of systems, and it's easy to just play a fixed piece of audio (like a skin sound).

However, Portaudio is very portable too, and would probably serve well, although it would need higher level code to playFile(...), etc. If the lower level Linux stuff had used it instead of ALSA, the port to OS X would have been trivial, and it's even portable to Windows, so it might be a good common layer. I used Portaudio extensively in a former job, and it's a solid bit of code.

I'd love to see a common audio library used for both Linux and OSX. Just make sure that this library can play both on the analog device (2ch) and on the digital device (2ch pcm and passthrough for Dolby Digital/DTS).

-Yuval

**Gamester17** · 2007-12-14 11:24

yuvalt Wrote:I'd love to see a common audio library used for both Linux and OSX.

...and Windows (Win32)? Confused

**yuvalt** · 2007-12-14 11:30

Gamester17 Wrote:...and Windows (Win32)?

Yeah.

elan · 2007-12-14 12:59

Got TLS stuff working better, networking, photo browsing, and now I'm stuck on an annoying problem where DVDDemuxFFmpeg is having trouble talking to libavformat...strange stuff.

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**yuvalt** · 2007-12-14 13:29

Excellent progress!

MDPauley · 2007-12-14 18:58

Would these changes also allow XBMC to compile under Tiger?

griffore · 2007-12-14 20:19

awesome work! keep it up! Smile

btw, when is the linux branch moving into the main trunk?

**SandmanCL** · 2007-12-14 20:41

elan -- this is looking promising ! Thanks for working on this. I have an old G4 PowerBook through work (hopefully I'll get upgraded to a MacBook Pro after Christmas) that has been a faithful travel companion for years. Running XBMC on a plane will make traveling seem more like being at home Smile

elan · 2007-12-14 22:12

MPauley73 Wrote:Would these changes also allow XBMC to compile under Tiger?

In theory, yes. In practice, I've been focusing on Leopard. I'm sure once I merge to svn, other people can complete the work (if any) for Tiger.

**yuvalt** · 2007-12-14 23:28

griffore Wrote:awesome work! keep it up!

btw, when is the linux branch moving into the main trunk?

There's no plan in the horizon to merge it back. Not sure it's worth the effort as a lot of changes have occured in the linux branch. Vulkanr merges very often so no change that's in the main trunk is missing in the linux branch.

-Yuval

Gamester17 Team-XBMC Forum Moderator Posts: 10,595 Joined: Sep 2003 Reputation: 9 Location: Sweden	2007-12-14 11:24 Post: #32 yuvalt Wrote:I'd love to see a common audio library used for both Linux and OSX. ...and Windows (Win32)? Always read the XBMC online-manual, FAQ and search the forum before posting. Do not e-mail XBMC-Team members directly asking for support. Read/follow the forum rules. For troubleshooting and bug reporting please make sure you read this first.
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yuvalt Retired Team-XBMC Member Posts: 421 Joined: May 2004 Reputation: 0 Location: Israel	2007-12-14 11:30 Post: #33 Gamester17 Wrote:...and Windows (Win32)? Yeah.
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elan Team Plex Posts: 276 Joined: Dec 2007 Location: Maui	2007-12-14 12:59 Post: #34 Got TLS stuff working better, networking, photo browsing, and now I'm stuck on an annoying problem where DVDDemuxFFmpeg is having trouble talking to libavformat...strange stuff.
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yuvalt Retired Team-XBMC Member Posts: 421 Joined: May 2004 Reputation: 0 Location: Israel	2007-12-14 13:29 Post: #35 Excellent progress!
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MDPauley Senior Member Posts: 264 Joined: Mar 2004 Reputation: 0 Location: Centreville, Va	2007-12-14 18:58 Post: #36 Would these changes also allow XBMC to compile under Tiger?
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griffore Member Posts: 70 Joined: Oct 2007 Reputation: 0 Location: Ontario, Canada	2007-12-14 20:19 Post: #37 awesome work! keep it up! btw, when is the linux branch moving into the main trunk?
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SandmanCL Multi-platform XBMC fan Posts: 573 Joined: Jul 2004 Reputation: 1 Location: San Francisco, CA	2007-12-14 20:41 Post: #38 elan -- this is looking promising ! Thanks for working on this. I have an old G4 PowerBook through work (hopefully I'll get upgraded to a MacBook Pro after Christmas) that has been a faithful travel companion for years. Running XBMC on a plane will make traveling seem more like being at home
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elan Team Plex Posts: 276 Joined: Dec 2007 Location: Maui	2007-12-14 22:12 Post: #39 MPauley73 Wrote:Would these changes also allow XBMC to compile under Tiger? In theory, yes. In practice, I've been focusing on Leopard. I'm sure once I merge to svn, other people can complete the work (if any) for Tiger.
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yuvalt Retired Team-XBMC Member Posts: 421 Joined: May 2004 Reputation: 0 Location: Israel	2007-12-14 23:28 Post: #40 griffore Wrote:awesome work! keep it up! btw, when is the linux branch moving into the main trunk? There's no plan in the horizon to merge it back. Not sure it's worth the effort as a lot of changes have occured in the linux branch. Vulkanr merges very often so no change that's in the main trunk is missing in the linux branch. -Yuval
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