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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> Many thanks.  Right now I cannot keep up with all the nice programs 
> and the kernel that David has compiled for BL, especially if he 
> posts Mplayer, which he seems to have compiled extra small - was 
> this using uClibc?

Regular glibc.

> Or maybe you want to compile a really minimal Mplayer that plays 
> Realaudio, Windows Media Player, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files but no 
> video or anything graphical?  Static so it would work for BL3 or 
> BL2 (or at least including all but libc).  I got confused just 
> reading the requirements.
> The age hardware supported by BL is not supposed to include 
> DVD-drives or really be fast enough to play movies.

486s are highly capable of video playback. My first 486 came with
a CD encyclopedia, full of many videos to watch. I agree about DVDs,
though.

> Perhaps other BL3 users would like xpdf for libc5 - the precompiled 
> online version requires glibc2.2.5.

Are there issues with the Slackware xpdf?

David
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