Installation

Quite straight forward. Make sure that you have installed the latest version of xine-lib. At least beta9 is required. Then download and unpack oxine source tarball, change to the directory created and type.
./configure --prefix=/some/path
make
make install
If you checked oxine out of CVS make sure that you have recent versions of autoconf and automake installed. (Tested with: automake 1.7.2 and autoconf 2.57.) Then type
./autogen.sh --prefix=/some/path
make
make install
To set up autoplay functionality make sure of the following things:
  • cdrom or dvd drive is mountable by the user oxine runs with
  • cdrom or dvd device and mountpoint are set correctly. Default is device: /dev/dvd mountpoint: /dvd. To change this, run oxine one time and click on shutdown. Oxine will then create its default config file in your home (~/.oxine/config). While oxine is not running, edit this file with an editor.
If you use lirc, make sure that you don't have irxevent daemon running. Otherwise oxine may get all lirc events twice which is really frustrating. There is a default lircrc installed in $PREFIX/share/oxine. You can customize this file in place or - much better - copy it to ~/.oxine where it will not be overwritten if oxine is reinstalled. If you upgrade oxine, read the ChangeLog - the lirc file config options may change from time to time.

Usage

Start oxine with
oxine [options] [mrls...]
options are:

-h print command line help
-v print oxine's version
-f start in fullscreen mode
-V driver let xine use specified video driver e.g.: auto, xv, xshm, dxr3, ...
-A driver let xine use specified audio driver e.g.: auto, oss, alsa, ...

during runtime of oxine following keys and lirc configs were available:

keylirc configaction
arrow keysup, down,
left, right
move between buttons and so on
return, enterselectselect a button, item
ESC, qexit immediately
ftoggles full screen mode
omenudisplay a menu while playing a stream
sstopstop a stream
spacepplaytoggle pause/play
eejectopen tray of cd drive - stop playing if necessary
nnextgo to next playlist item
pprevgo to previous playlist item
+volupincrease volume
-voldowndecrease volume
mvolmutemute/unmute volume
seek [+/-] secseek forward/backward in streams
PgDown, PgUp
mousewheel
scrolling in lists
F1-F7DVD menu keys

You can also use a mouse to navigate through menus.

There is a mediamarks file installed in share/oxine. You can copy this into ~/.oxine and customize it. It is a simple xml file and should be selfdescriptive.

©2003 by the oxine project - last change: 23.3.2003