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

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > 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?
>
> You do not need a font.

> > I had the same problem trying to play a .wav file offline.
>
> Did you get another error message? How did you play this?
> mplayer file.wav should start playing. It does here, with
> nothing but BL3.

I tried it in BL2.  mplayer file.wav. It wants font.desc

I just mounted and chrooted to BL3 and copied mplayer and the config file 
there and tried to listen to wdav.  I get the same complaint about no 
font.desc after using built-in codecs.conf.

Maybe your BL3 has something mine does not.  Has anyone else tried your 
mplayer yet?


> > 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?
>
> No. It works without it.
>
> > 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.
>
> It may need a PII. I can't figure out how to make it work on CPUs older
> than the machine I compiled it on. I first compiled it on a P4, but then
> it wouldn't work on my P2. So I recompiled it on my P2.

Mine is a 233 MHz PI.  I have a 350MHz machine with super socket 7 - is 
that still a PI?  A PII is under construction and we have a working one at 
another location from here where I will try next.  Not exactly the 
generation BL3 is aiming at, but people are now throwing out early PIIs 
here.  I don't like them because they have ATX power supplies and only two 
ISA slots (or none).

CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0

Do I need more of these to be 1 and not 0?
What does Mplayer say about these on your PII?



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