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

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:
> 
> > You can get MPlayer now:
> >
> > http://geocities.com/davidjmoberg/mplayer.tar.gz
> 
> 
> Many thanks.  Why did you not name it .bz2 yourself?

Geocities only allows certain extensions.

> > This is NOT a tarball. Please rename it to mplayer.bz2 first,
> > then run bunzip2 on it. You should get the 5.6 or so MB file.
> > Available output drivers:
> >
> > video
> >
> > X11, several to choose from
> > fbdev
> > vidix
> > vesa
> 
> What do you mean by vesa, svgalib?

No. If you don't have X11 or FB running, MPlayer can send video
directly to your VESA-compliant graphics card. It's full-screen,
good quality, and very fast.

> What is vidix?

I probably added that to the list too soon. It is a small set of
drivers for various graphics cards. Unfortunately, the drivers
aren't included with this binary. The only reason I mentioned it
above is because it's in MPlayer's list.

> We just acquired an ATI Rage Vesa 2.0 card - do you know if this
> handles framebuffer?

It should.

> > You may need full-size libc6 to access http or ftp directly.
> 
> Such as the SW7.1 or SW8.1 packages?

Does 8.1 have glibc-2.2.5?

> Was libc5 compiled smaller 
> (with less features) than usual for BL3?

No. But its networking is not as complex as glibc2.

David
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