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[Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> > Yes, an unfortunate issue with glibc. My MPlayer binary is affected
> > by this. You need to either use something else to download A/V clips,
> > use glibc, or forget about networking.
>
> Why does libc5 not network properly?
>
> > > > 5MB uncompressed. Unleashing bzip2 on it squashed it down to 2.2MB.
> > > > Keep in mind that this has nearly everything. DVD support, and also
> > > > 85 audio codecs, 192 video codecs, X11, FB, basic VESA video, several
> > > > audio drivers, blah blah blah.
> > > If you'd like me to compile Mplayer or pretty well anything I'd
> > > gladly have that done
> >
> >
> > I can do some compiling if needed, also. I'm not capable of handling
> > everything but I can hack a little C too, if necessary.
> >
> > > (I have access to a 3Ghz, 4Gig of RAM box for
> > > building packages).
> >
> >
> > 2.6GHz, 512MB RAM here.
>
>
> I compiled lynx and ghostscript on my fastest computer 300MHz and 
> 128MB RAM.  I would go wash dishes while waiting to see if something 
> would work. Took about 5 minutes to compile a kernel on there.  We 
> have also tried compiling short C programs on a 486 with 24MB and the 
> speed difference is large.  Compiling only seemed to take advantage of 
> 96MB RAM.  I imagine Mplayer would go slower that ghostscript since it 
> does even more.
>
> If one of you could compile a small static Mplayer that does just 
> audio that would be helpful.  You probably would not need all 20 
> libraries (nothing graphical) and no X support so libc5 might even work.

Well, I already have all 20 libraries or something like that installed 
because I can compile Mozilla. So if anybody wants me to compile 
something mozilla-related, lemme know.

I'd gladly compile a small static Mplayer. Xpdf and XMMS too (XMMS has 
good streaming capability).

Stephen Clement