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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Clement" <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>
 
> >> 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?

It does network properly. It doesn't help glibc's networking
support.

> I'd gladly compile a small static Mplayer.

Great! If you can get Live.COM included, that would be
even better. Please make sure win32 plugin support is
enabled, ogg, all the other audio stuff.

> Xpdf and XMMS too (XMMS 
> has good streaming capability).

XMMS needs X11.

David
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