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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. WHAT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

    FFS TFS needs some TLC.

    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."

  2. Re:Wise use of time and effort? by serviscope_minor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wayland is not an interoperable standard.

    You've got ubuntu wanting Mir.

    You've got Fedora wanting Wayland.

    And everyone else uses X, the ancient legacy (and therefore old bad crufty and slow---even though it can run happily on a Sun 3/60) display server that inexplicably has cool features that the others lack. But that's OK because we keep being told how no one uses those features anyway.

    X is the interoperable standard, and frankly much better.

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    SJW n. One who posts facts.
  3. Re:Wise use of time and effort? by serviscope_minor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can run X on top of wayland. The misinformation and misunderstanding of what wayland is and what it's trying to accomplish is astounding given the information is a click away.

    Touche.

    You can run X on top of anything. That really means very little: you can run it on top of OSX and Windows too. You can't remote Windows or OSX apps using X11 and X11 apps on OSX and Windows are second class citizens: copy/paste is non functional beyond plain text and DnD does not work. Furthermore, you cannot manage the native windows with an X11 Window Manager.

    Make no mistake: X11 on Windows and OSX is a poor user experience and it wil be the same on Wayland for the same reasons.

    Remember, you can still run X on top of Wayland.

    Stop saying that. It's an idiotic think to keep saying because whit true, it is entirely deceptive.

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    SJW n. One who posts facts.