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            xine
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     a free video player


building xine on solaris
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* The preferred make command to compile xine is GNU make (gmake,
  /opt/sfw/bin/gmake).

  Sun's make (/usr/ccs/bin/make, or dmake) may work, too.


* On Solaris x86: When xine-lib code is build using GCC as the compiler,
  xine-lib tries to use MMX/SSE/3DNOW! instructions of x86 CPUs, which
  may not assemble using Solaris' /usr/ccs/bin/as.

  Make sure to use the GNU assembler as the assembler backend for the
  GNU C compiler and as a standalone assembler command.

  A quick workaround when using the GCC from Sun's
  "Software Companion" CD is to replace /usr/ccs/bin/as with a 
  link to GNU as,  for example like this:

    cd /usr/ccs/bin
    ln -s /opt/sfw/bin/gas gnu-as
    mv as sun-as
    ln -s gnu-as as
    
  (Use "ln -s gnu-as as" or "ln -s sun-as as" to switch between the
  two assemblers)


* To get VIS accelerated video decoding and colour space conversion 
  on Solaris SPARC with an UltraSPARC cpu, download and install Sun's
  mediaLib 2.0 before compiling xine. mediaLib is available here:

    http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html


Known Problems
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* Can't use MIT shared memory for local video display

  The default value for the maximum allowed shared memory segment size
  (1MByte) and the number of allowed shared memory segments (6)
  is very small on solaris.  You may want to increase both parameters.
  Add the following lines to /etc/system to increase the shmmax parameter
  to 8MBytes and the shmseg parameter to at least 32 [*]:

	set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=8388608
	set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=32

  Reboot the machine after modifying /etc/system to activate the new
  shared memory defaults.

  [*] Note: 15 shared memory segments is the minimum requirement for
      xine's "XShm" video output plugin; 32 gives a bit of extra room
      for other applications.  The GUI frontend might need more
      shared memory segments, see below.


* Warnings from xine-ui, when playlist / control / mrl browser panel
  is opened (and broken skin image elements in these panels):

	xiTK WARNING: X error received: 'BadShmSeg (invalid shared
		segment parameter)'
	xiTK WARNING: X error received: 'BadAccess (attempt to access
		private resource denied)'
	xiTK WARNING: XShmAttach() failed.

  xine-ui tries to use even more shared memory segments for skin
  images.


  Workaround:  The problem can be avoided with one of

  - create a text file $HOME/.xitkrc (or /etc/xitkrc) and add the
    following line into it

      feature.shm = 0

  - configure and build xine-ui with option "--disable-shm"

  - increase shmsys:shminfo_shmseg to at least 768


* When using an 8-bit display, xine aborts with the error message:

	IMLIB ERROR: Cannot Find Palette. A Palette is required for this mode
	Unable to initialize Imlib

  xine expects an installed Imlib package, installed using the "prefix" /
  xine is looking for the global Imlib config file in /etc/imrc.

  If you have the solaris 8 companion CD installed, an Imlib package is
  already installed on your system, but it uses the "prefix" /opt/sfw.
  
  To work around the problem:
  
  - install a symbolic link /etc/imrc, pointing to /opt/sfw/etc/imrc
    (needs root permission)

	# ln -s /opt/sfw/etc/imrc /etc

  or 

  - install an ".imrc" file in your home directory,
    with the following contents:

	PaletteFile     /opt/sfw/etc/im_palette.pal


* On Solaris x86, you cannot reliably play DVDs using a capacity >4GB:

  The sd(7D) driver on solaris x86 has a bug when accessing a disk
  block >4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE (i.e.
  CDROM and DVD media).  Due to a 32bit int overflow, a disk address
  modulo 4GB is accessed.
  
  There's no workaround available.

  See the following message for more details about this bug:

	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516


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