Summary: | Adding support for helix engine to amarok ebuild | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | yardbird <bluescarni> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Sound Team <sound> |
Status: | RESOLVED LATER | ||
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: | Patch against amarok-1.3.1-r1.ebuild to enable support for helix engine |
Description
yardbird
2005-09-09 15:54:23 UTC
Created attachment 68068 [details, diff]
Patch against amarok-1.3.1-r1.ebuild to enable support for helix engine
I prefer avoiding adding this for now. As you said, it opens just a few formats (IIRC it doesn't open RealAudio as it's the free version of RealPlayer without their codecs). Also, HelixPlayer is a package with an history of security vulnerabilities, and it's not exactly the best code available. Finally, it works only on x86. I'd rather avoid this for now, as it will just make us receive more "amaroK doesn't work" bugs. Ok, you're probably right. I'll just add that I just realized that the helix engine can actually work also with RealPlayer's codecs - this means MP3 and some other formats are supported (AAC, RA, ... ). I also suspect that it is possible to compile amarok with RealPlayer/HelixPlayer support _without_ having them installed (since the configure script does not check if they are really present on the system, and when you configure the helix engine in amarok you have to specify the location of the libraries). Just FYI :) |