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  • From: Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: BL streaming MP3, was Re: [BL] Re: broken windows needs replacing
  • Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:26:48 -0400

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





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