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Christine running on MS Win32

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:29:06 PDT

Finally!!!, Christine, my beloved media player is running on Windows, this is something that I really wanted to do for the next release. I had spend the last nights trying to compile it, first I tried to compile GStreamer, then I realized that there are binaries in the GStreamer WinBuilds project, with a little less work, I tried to compile Christine using cygwin, but it didn't worked. Then using the Python's distutils I compiled the C modules and I created a binary with Py2exe

There it is, running. I still have a lot of work to do, because Christine is written for UNIX and several technologies like Dbus are not in win32, although it seems to be in progress.

I'm running it on a virtual machine and I haven't tested if it really plays something, I'll give a try tomorrow.

For tonight I'm happy :-)

Some shots:

Trying to compile christine on Windows

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:45:23 PDT

Trying to

Originally uploaded by markuz

Last night I was trying to compile christine on windows using cygwin, I didn't made it but I think I know why, I will try to make it work this tonight.

Christine playing videos

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:31:00 PDT

Christine playing videos

Originally uploaded by markuz

I was playing with gstreamer video sinks, I found that using cacasink and aasink you can play videos in ascii mode ;-) funny even when (for me) has no good use.

Christine without menu

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:27:06 PDT

Christine without menu

Originally uploaded by markuz

This is christine without the menubar and the side bar. It look pretty clean don't you think?

Christine small mode

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:22:52 PDT

Christine small mode

Originally uploaded by markuz

This is Christine in small mode (Ctrl+d).

Developing Christine

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:49:48 PDT

Christine

Originally uploaded by markuz

Working on Christine

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:47:48 PDT

Christine

Originally uploaded by markuz

Tonight I have been working on the display widget. That part of christine that displays the title and lenght of the song you are playing. I have set up a background to make it look less simple.
I also put the control buttons, the volume control and the search entry (which is hided in this screenshot) in a toolbar.
What do you think about this small changes?

apt reminder no. 1

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:59:28 PDT

Limit your download rate in apt.
As root,

alias apt-get="apt-get -o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=80"

Watchmen, Miss Pettigrew and Gran Torino

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:38:23 PDT

Yesterday Cristina and I rent three movies, Watchmen, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Gran Torino, all this three movies are great.

Watchmen is (yes, still is) the last movie I saw in the cinema with Cristina, it was before Sofia was born, for those that don't understand why Cristina and I have not gone to the movies again it is because we have nobody to take care of Sofia. A couple of friends of mine didn't like the movie but I love it, and Cristina who don't like all the things I do (computers, technology, comics, or something a bit complex) really enjoy the movie (I hope it is not because Dr. Manhattan ).

The second movie, Miss Pettigrew is a nice comedy about a woman that is looking for a job and know a woman in a relationship with three different men. At the end, as all the movies made for women the girl lives with the good guy.

The las movie, Gran Torino.. what a great movie. We (yes, again both) enjoy it. Clint Eastwood made a really good work with the story, I start hating the protagonist, Mr. Kowalsky, he is the typical American, racist and nationalist, but as the story evolve then you know the people behind that tough guy. The phrases that he says are really funny and a the end you understand why he is so grumpy. This is a really nice movie that you have to watch.

October Desktop

markuz@islascruz.org (Marco Antonio Islas Cruz) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:11:00 PDT

October Desktop

Originally uploaded by markuz