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Hi all
I am interested in working on the mini-project to develop DVB support for Windows.
Target machine is a P3 500MHz WinXP Home with Hauppauge Nova-T-500 dual DVB-T tuners. On that machine I run DVB-Webscheduler and VLC to stream the files across my LAN.
My development machine is a dual boot  AMD64 Athlon 3200+ running both Win XP Pro and Ubuntu. I have installed gcc and also built a gcc cross-compiler for mingw. I have not yet tested the cross-compiler.
I’ve done lots of programming in many languages including c++  but for many years it has been a hobby rather than a profession. Included in that I have written the odd device driver but that was a long time ago.
Downside is that I am not very familiar with BDA (although I have started studying it) and the svn thing is completely foreign to me. I’m also studying the relevant bits of VLC but struggling a bit to know where to start.
I’m happy to do anything to help including coding, testing, documenting as I’d really like to get it working. I just need to be pointed in the right direction

I subscribed to the vlc-devel mailing list and posted the same message there but I must have done something wrong coz it didn't show up.

ken

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Oh. I did not see that.
Please re-mail it ! It must have not been through spam filters... Sorry.

Please, we will welcome your help. Really. To start, come on IRC and compile a VLC

Thanks j-b.

I have just successfully compiled vlc on Linux. Now trying to cross-compile to mingw but hitting a little snag with windows include files (ole2.h). I've got them but can't get ./configure to see them.

how have you tried ?
If you are not able to do that (compile process of vlc is not so easy), ask on vlc-devel@v.o or on IRC (evening CET)

Problem fixed. A small matter of configure wanting the i686-pc-mingw32 prefixed version of the compiler. Now I'm hitting some real bugs so its off to IRC or the mailing list.

Yes. That is the best way to target most devs.