I got fed up of waiting for the next version of XMMS-MPlayer so I made a patch to filter the file extensions myself. It seems to work great. I've just submitted the patch upstream but to be honest, I think the author's disappeared. Oh well. It still works anyway. This patch also renders bug #63468 obsolete. I really hope the next generation of media players start coming out soon so we stop messing about with backwards solutions like this. XMMS is a veritable dinosaur now. I'm a bit dubious about XMMS2 not being able to handle video. I'd be happy with MPlayer if they could make a better GUI client and a crossfading plugin for it. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Created attachment 51038 [details] xmms-xmmsmplayer-0.5_p1.ebuild A new ebuild to incorporate the patch. It removes the old warning about how the plugin handles file types and the compiling now happens in the src_compile stage rather than the src_install stage!!
Created attachment 51039 [details, diff] exts-filter.patch
Created attachment 52121 [details, diff] exts-filter.patch The original patch would occasionally crash XMMS if many files were being loaded into the playlist at once due to concurrency issues involving the config file. I've now modified the patch so that the config file is only read when XMMS is started and when the config is modified.
Great, have you submitted your updated patch upstream?
Oops forgot to do that. Done it now. I never did hear anything back. )-: I've been using this patch for ages myself without a single problem so it definitely works.
in portage. thanks.
You forgot to update the changelog. (-;
