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

I used links to download it as mplayer.bz2, installed slakware/a1/bz2.tgz, 
and did bunzip2 mplayer.bz2 which produced one file that I put in 
/usr/local/bin. (BL2 - should not matter, it is statically compiled).

I typed mplayer and it complained about not /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf or 
/usr/ect/mplayer/.codecs.conf but said it would use the built-in default.

mplayer http:..... (url of a streaming MP3 station) got me only error 
messages:

same thing about the codecs.conf and also

font:  can't open file:  /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font:  can't open file:  /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc

Why do we need a font in order to listen to music?

I had the same problem trying to play a .wav file offline.

It made /root/.mplayer/config which consists only of:

# Write your default config options here!

Should I put something here to make mplayer happier about fonts?
Do you have a font.desc?

mpg123 is playing 24K broadcasts beautifully at this location, where I 
connect at 45-48K.  It skips some at the other location at 42-44K.
I interrupted some Russian monks to try out mplayer.

Mplayer told me my cpu type and speed, and that I have MMX (cpu) and 
3DNow and SSE2.  Also
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:  MMX

Do I need MMX cpu to use this version?  Pentiums slower than 166MHz don't 
have that.


On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> You can get MPlayer now:
>
> http://geocities.com/davidjmoberg/mplayer.tar.gz
>
> 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
> various image files
>
> audio
>
> mpegpes
> oss
> esd
> null
> pcm
> plugin
>
> It's known to play:
>
> mp3s
> ogg vorbis
> Windows Media files
> Quicktime
> WAV files
> Most AVI files, with open codecs
> DVDs
>
> I haven't tried it with RealMedia. To play an audio file to
> oss, simply run mplayer with the filename. You may need
> full-size libc6 to access http or ftp directly.
>
> David
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