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@@ -5,22 +5,25 @@ viewing and playing a vast library of audio, video and image formats.
XBMC has a sophisticated library management system that allows you to
organize all your media to give you quick and immediate access.
-XBMC requires libmpeg2, faad2, libmodplug, libmms and enca.
+XBMC requires libass, libmpeg2, libmodplug and yajl.
-Optional: vobcopy, lirc, faac, cwiid, pybluez, libdvdcss, libssh,
-lightblue, libvdpau, libass, rtmpdump, libmicrohttpd, libva, avahi,
-ffmpeg, libdca (aka libdts), a52dec (aka liba52) (all available at
-slackbuilds.org).
+Optional: libcec, pulseaudio, libbluray, libnfs,
+libdvdcss, vobcopy, lirc, cwiid, pybluez, libssh, id3lib,
+libvdpau, rtmpdump, libmicrohttpd, libva, avahi, ffmpeg
+(all available at slackbuilds.org).
-Optional: pulseaudio, libcrystalhd and libbluray (not available at
-slackbuilds.org)
+Optional: afpfs-ng is also an optional build time requirement but
+doesn't get picked up by xbmc due to lack of afpfs-ng header files.
+
+Optional: libcrystalhd and shairpoint (not available at slackbuilds.org)
Below are some paramaters that can be passed to the slackbuild to turn
on some optional components.
EXT_FFMPEG=yes|no (Default is no), requires ffmpeg
-EXT_A52DEC=yes|no (Default is no), requires a52dec
-EXT_DTS=yes|no (Default is no), requires libdca
-EXT_ALL=yes|no (Default is no), turns on all of the above options
USE_WII=yes|no (Default is no), requires cwiid and pybluez
WEBSERVER=yes|no (Default is no), requires libmicrohttpd
+
+Note: The use of external ffmpeg is discouraged by the XBMC developers.
+A patch is provided so XBMC can be built against newer ffmpeg. However,
+this patch is NOT fully tested.