NEW: live555 libraries for playing streaming media

[ehainry@…]

Live 555 is a library used to play streaming media. It can be used by MPlayer.

http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/

This portfile is not very polished (only written with macos in mind (argument to configure) and I have no means to test it on other systems at the moment ; the destroot phase is quite dirty, but that's how they advise to do). If anybody wants to give it some love (and put their name for maintainer). Also, it may be nice to put the distfile in some place it will be conserved, they don't seem to make it easy fetching an old tarball.

It could be integrated with MPlayer by adding a variant in Mplayer's Portfile:

variant live \
    description {Enable live555 streaming media input} {
    depends_lib-append      port:live555
    configure.args-delete   --disable-live
}

[ehainry@…]

Update

[ehainry@…]

Note: I forgot to put some $Id: svn keywords... If anybody commits this, please add it.

[ecronin@…]

mplayer maintainer here- if/when this new port gets added, please also add the variant above to the MPlayer Portfile, it looks fine.

[jmpp@…]

Milestone New Ports deleted

[simon@…]

Updates the Portfile to the newest version which ensures it's working.

[simon@…]

Added patch for mplayer Portfile like suggested by the creator of this ticket.

[ryandesign@…]

In r27464 I committed the live555 portfile, plus Simon's patch, plus additional changes by me since the current (and only) version available as of today is 2007.08.03a. I also updated the livecheck regex to work with MacPorts 1.5.1 and to handle the unexpected "a" in the version.

Since the distfiles disappear so quickly it would be a good idea to a) request of the developers that they keep old versions around for awhile, or if they refuse, b) host the distfiles in the MacPorts repository.

[ryandesign@…]

"live" variant added to MPlayer as per Simon's second patch in r27465. Thanks, all.