xhippo

xhippo

[Corinna Vinschen]

I just found the xhippo package on the GNU ftp server.

  $ cat README
  Welcome to GNU xhippo, a generic front-end for sound players.

  The xhippo documentation (in texinfo and several derived formats) can
  be found in the doc/ subdirectory.

  Please report xhippo bugs to [...]

Why did nobody contribute xhippo so far?  That's an incredible
deficiency.  The Cygwin distro is practically unusable without
this package.


Corinna

Re: xhippo

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> I just found the xhippo package on the GNU ftp server.
> 
>   $ cat README
>   Welcome to GNU xhippo, a generic front-end for sound players.
> 
>   The xhippo documentation (in texinfo and several derived formats) can
>   be found in the doc/ subdirectory.
> 
>   Please report xhippo bugs to [...]
> 
> Why did nobody contribute xhippo so far?  That's an incredible
> deficiency.  The Cygwin distro is practically unusable without
> this package.

Which sound player are supported?


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Re: xhippo

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
>> I just found the xhippo package on the GNU ftp server.
>>
>>   $ cat README
>>   Welcome to GNU xhippo, a generic front-end for sound players.
>>
>>   The xhippo documentation (in texinfo and several derived formats) can
>>   be found in the doc/ subdirectory.
>>
>>   Please report xhippo bugs to [...]
>>
>> Why did nobody contribute xhippo so far?  That's an incredible
>> deficiency.  The Cygwin distro is practically unusable without
>> this package.
> 
> 
> Which sound player are supported?


It requires libid3, libid3tag, nftw() <--- important:
configure: WARNING: nftw not found. Add Directory will be disabled.

If you contribute nftw to newlib, I'll contribute an xhippo package ;)


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Re: xhippo

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug  7 20:30, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> It requires libid3, libid3tag, nftw() <--- important:
> configure: WARNING: nftw not found. Add Directory will be disabled.
> 
> If you contribute nftw to newlib, I'll contribute an xhippo package ;)

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2005-q3/msg00069.html

You asked for it...


Corinna

Re: xhippo

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Aug  7 20:30, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 
>>It requires libid3, libid3tag, nftw() <--- important:
>>configure: WARNING: nftw not found. Add Directory will be disabled.
>>
>>If you contribute nftw to newlib, I'll contribute an xhippo package ;)
> 
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2005-q3/msg00069.html
> 
> You asked for it...

Wow, thats what I call "Prompte Lieferung" ;)

Unfortunately xhippo wil not be very useful as long as there is no
mp3 player in the distribution.  I tried to run xhippo with no
changes, then there was the wrong mp3 player in the config file,
when I terminated xhippo all cygwin processes where terminated,
including cygserver.  Very bad...


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Re: xhippo

[Michael Schaap]

On 8-Aug-2005 16:02, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>
> Unfortunately xhippo wil not be very useful as long as there is no
> mp3 player in the distribution.
Sure there is.  How about cygstart?

 - Michael

Re: xhippo

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Michael Schaap wrote:

> On 8-Aug-2005 16:02, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 
>>
>> Unfortunately xhippo wil not be very useful as long as there is no
>> mp3 player in the distribution.
> 
> Sure there is.  How about cygstart?

Is it a command line mp3 player?  Never heard of it ;)

It should be no problem to build ogg123 or other mp3 player for
Cygwin, I wonder that nobody wanted to contribute things like
this up to now.


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Re: xhippo

[Brian Dessent]

"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:

> It should be no problem to build ogg123 or other mp3 player for
> Cygwin, I wonder that nobody wanted to contribute things like
> this up to now.

Probably because windows already has a gazillion native mp3 players
already.  I'm sure some of them have command line mode.

There's also the nasty issue of the Fraunhofer mp3 patent.

Brian

Re: xhippo

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Brian Dessent wrote:

> "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> 
> 
>>It should be no problem to build ogg123 or other mp3 player for
>>Cygwin, I wonder that nobody wanted to contribute things like
>>this up to now.
> 
> 
> Probably because windows already has a gazillion native mp3 players
> already.  I'm sure some of them have command line mode.
> 
> There's also the nasty issue of the Fraunhofer mp3 patent.

That is the reason why there exists ogg and friends, isn't it?

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Re: xhippo

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug  9 21:43, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
> 
> >"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>It should be no problem to build ogg123 or other mp3 player for
> >>Cygwin, I wonder that nobody wanted to contribute things like
> >>this up to now.
> >
> >
> >Probably because windows already has a gazillion native mp3 players
> >already.  I'm sure some of them have command line mode.
> >
> >There's also the nasty issue of the Fraunhofer mp3 patent.
> 
> That is the reason why there exists ogg and friends, isn't it?

Btw., libogg and libvorbis compile practically OOTB on Cygwin,
even with working libtool and DLLs and stuff.  If anybody wants
to maintain the packages... [hint, hint]

I have prepared them for inclusion in the distro, but I'm reluctant
to maintain the packages because I have NADA clue about sound and
sound compression algorithms...

...well, except for the compressed sound of a human with a hippo
on top of it.


Corinna