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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:
> > 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.

Supposedly a really fast video card with onboard RAM helps compensate for 
a slower cpu.  We have one Nvidia to try in the 600MHz computer.

> 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?

It is out of date and will not work on pdf 1.5 files, which came out some 
time this past year or so.  People keep sending me scanned documents that 
they convert to pdf 1.5 before emailing.  The IRS puts out its documents 
are some format of pdf designed to be filled in, which even gs 8.50 which 
I compiled (for glibc 2.2.5) prints out half a page down, so I had to use 
xpdf 3.0 on those too.  I think it was pdftops, and then I could print 
with gs.

I should try pstopnm from netpbm next.  The netpbm package is still in the 
works - I have to try to figure out how to shrink a 1.1M jpg to a higher 
compression ratio with it so that I can download photos from a shell 
account when people send me 1-3M photos of their new baby.  cjpeg made 
something 1/20 the size (both file and photo) rather than higher 
compression.  djpeg could not handle the file format.


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