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Is There a Guide for Writing XMMS Plugins?

Posted by Cliff on from the extending-the-functionality dept.

Anthanos asks: "I was recently asked to put together a Winamp and an XMMS plugin to do some pretty cool things. Having never done plugin development for either I went to their respective webpages and began looking for samples and/or SDKs to make use of. Winamp provided very well put together documentation and SDKs, but I can't find anything similar for XMMS. Has any such documentation or guide been put together? All I have found reference to so far are existing projects. I was hoping for the equivalent of 'Hello World!' for XMMS."

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  1. Re:I believe by Xunker · · Score: 4

    Uhm. No.

    They *started* out being similar, because Justin needed a framework to work off of, but it hasn't been line this since WinAmp moved to 2.x -- true, it may still supports 1.x plugins, but..

    And at the same time, XMMS (x11amp) has been evolving, too, and extending itself and it's API.

    Maybe it's worth someomes' time to design a uniform IPC API for media players? That would be a very interesting propsition.
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  2. The cheesy spectrum analyzer plugin... by ameoba · · Score: 4

    isn't there because it's an interesting bit of code. Granted it could be better commented, but it's all fairly self-explanatory. The other plugins that ship with it are also fairly simple. When combined with actually looking at the players sources should give you more than enough info on writing a plugin.


    [insert snide comment about posting to /. for something that could be discovered with 5min of research]

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