Xine and Tcl

Hello All,

This is a question about using video with Tcl/Tk on Linux platforms.
Current offerings are MPlayerTcl and XanimTcl
(http://membres.lycos.fr/scriptdevel/mplayertcl/).  However, neither
MPlayer or Xanim are standard packages available for Debian, whereas
Xine is.  I'm interested in creating a Tcl/Tk extension for Xine, and
I'm wondering if someone can point me in the right direction.  What I
have so far is:

http://xinehq.de/index.php/hackersguide#AEN1098

(from the Xine Hacker's Guide) and SWIG:

http://www.swig.org/

Any help would be appreciated, and this is for a OSS project...

Thanks

Bgc wrote:

> I'm interested in creating a Tcl/Tk extension for Xine, and
> I'm wondering if someone can point me in the right direction.

Xine has a fairly extensive man page with lots of command-line options. At
least in theory, you should be able to get a pretty good start by (1)
deciding which options you want and (2) designing a GUI with buttons, menu
items, or whatnot, to execute Xine commands with those options, plus
scales, spinboxes, or whatnot to make changes, and so on. In case you favor
a more nearly conventional GUI than the futuristic Xine UI, you might get
some ideas for the GUI from Kaffeine <http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net>, a
KDE front end for Xine.

David McClamrock

David,

> Xine has a fairly extensive man page with lots of command-line options. At
> least in theory, you should be able to get a pretty good start by (1)
> deciding which options you want and (2) designing a GUI with buttons, menu
> items, or whatnot, to execute Xine commands with those options, plus
> scales, spinboxes, or whatnot to make changes, and so on. In case you favo
r
> a more nearly conventional GUI than the futuristic Xine UI, you might get
> some ideas for the GUI from Kaffeine <http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net>, a
> KDE front end for Xine.

I agree that interacting with the Xine API via Tcl/Tk is a good way to
start.  Along those lines, an interesting project is here:

http://toxine.sourceforge.net/

It is a text-based interface to Xine's API.  The author notes, "You
can also see how to implement your own xine library frontend, because
toxine implement almost all xine's API calls."

Steve