[Gamester17]

fyi, got this mail from r. bernstein (creator of the cd input and control library, which xbmc uses to read cdda, iso9660 & iso/img/nrg images):

from: [email="[email protected]"][email protected][/email] on behalf of r. bernstein
sent: 19 june 2004 20:33
to: [email="[email protected]"][email protected][/email]
subject: [xbmc-developers] xmbc and libcdio in better sync

i just came across xmbc. seems very cool and interesting and i am delighted that an xbox driver and x-box cd-detection were added.

the libcdio sources used though seem a bit old and unmaintained. version 0.62 is over 6 months old. 0.68 is the current version and 0.69 i hope will be released soon.

i've gone over changes to libcdio and patched current libcdio sources where there was an outright lint-like bug or where the patching could be done in a clean way. an example of the latter:

#ifndef _xbox
#include <unistd.h>
#endif

becomes

#ifndef have_unistd_h  
#include <unistd.h>
#endif

(have_unistd_h is defined in config.h)

i've also taken the x-box filesystem detection xiso and added that to current libcdio cvs's cd-info. some of the other changes such as changing strdup() to _strdup() or adding s_isblk() and s_ischr() macro definitions would probably be better put in a common header (e.g. xbox.h) rather than changing the multiple lines of code in the multiple files as currently happens in xmbc.

by making the two pieces of code more similar i think both projects could benefit.

would it be a good idea to implement the latest libcdio changes and bug-fixes into xbmc (after xbmc 1.0 final been released that is)?, any takers?

[Gamester17]

fyi, bobbin007 (ported libcdio to xbmp/xbmc) has offered to co-work with rocky (creator of libcdio) on updating libcdio and libcdio in xbmc

[Nickman]

fyi, bobbin007 (ported libcdio to xbmp/xbmc) has offered to co-work with rocky (creator of libcdio) on updating libcdio and libcdio in xbmc

great news :o

after all he is prolly the best suited for the task as he did the initial port :kickass:

[Gamester17]

bumping as bobbin007 was waiting until xbmc 1.1.0 was out. in addition mog submitted an updated version (0.70) of libcdio here (link)

[A600]

i've a problem trying to compile latest xbmc with the libcdio update. i get lots of compiling errors like this:

libcdio\sector.h(239) : error c2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'cdio_lsn_to_lba'

xbmc compiled fine before the libcdio update.

any idea?

[kraqh3d]

yeah, i'm having the same problem. libcdio is generating lots of errors at compile time.

[tslayer]

yes, there are problems, just sync up the xbmc\xbmc\lib\libcdio to a date of 10/20/04 using your cvs client.

at least until this is resolved.

ts

[Bobbin007]

i've reverted libcdio to the previous version for now.

xbmc should compile again.

greets

bobbin007