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Proof-of-Concept Port of XBMC to SDL 2.0 and Wayland

Posted by Unknown on from the now-with-more-bling dept.

hypnosec wrote in with news that XBMC has experimental Wayland support now. Even better, it's implemented by porting XBMC to SDL 2.0, something that will become important as SDL 1.2 development officially ended and SDL 2.0 should be out in the wild in the not-too-distant-future. The code is only a few days old and has a few serious limitations (input is broken and a bug in weston with threaded clients causes rendering hangs) , but it seems like a pretty good start. The port should also bring SDL 2.0 support to the X11 backend.

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  1. Re:WHAT by dead_user · · Score: 5, Informative

    XBMC = XBox Media Center - http://xbmc.org/ SDL = Simple DirectMedia Layer - http://www.libsdl.org/ Wayland = http://wayland.freedesktop.org/

  2. Re:WHAT by PineHall · · Score: 5, Informative

    What is XBMC? What is SDL? What is Wayland?

    FFS TFS needs some TLC.

    XBMC is a "software media player and entertainment hub for digital media".

    SDL is Simple DirectMedia Layer and "is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer".

    "Wayland is a computer display server protocol and a library for Linux implementing that protocol."