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

David Moberg wrote:

> ----- 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.
>  
Not sure about the win32 stuff, I'll give it a try.

>  
>
> > Xpdf and XMMS too (XMMS 
> > has good streaming capability).
> >    
>
> XMMS needs X11.
>  
I know, I use it regularly ;)

> David
>  
Stephen Clement