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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] MPlayer
  • Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 02:34:44 +0000 (UTC)

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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