Xmms development has come to a virtual standstill upstream over the past year while contributers are seeing their patches bitrot. I've been managing a patchset for the Gentoo xmms release, but it's becoming rather tedius as most new patches against upstream's release need to be modified slightly to work with our version.

I've mentioned the possibility of a fork on a few occassions, but I'd rather not go down that road. Unfortunately, it seems that forking might be the only way to keep the project alive since the upstream developers don't seem inclined to open up cvs to other developers no

I got my PVR500 from Newegg last week, and I finally got around to adding it to my Media box a few days ago. Judging by comments on the ivtv-devel list, I had high hopes that it was in a usable state, but alas I was incorrect. The image quality is a bit poor, and if I set the resolution to anything less than 720 in width, the right portion of the image is cropped rather than resizing the image down to fit. It looks like it's going to be a while before I finally have my ReplayTV replacement...

Well, yesterday I spent some time debugging sound on my Ultra10. I threw in an old pci sound card I had lying around (ens1371 based), and all the remaining alsa issues I've been having seem to be cleared up.

The ioctl32 bugs were cleared out in alsa-driver-1.0.8, but <alsa-lib-1.0.8 still had some ioctl problems. With alsa-{lib,driver}-1.0.8 and my PCI sound card, all native ALSA apps are functioning properly. I'm no longer getting messages about bad ioctl calls with 32bit apps or 64bit apps.

Additionally, with the sbus cs4231, all issues present in 32bit applications are present in their 64bit counterparts, so it seems the ioctl32 code has been cleaned out well enough to work on machines other than amd64.