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  • From: "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] MPlayer
  • Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:23:42 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Clement" <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>

> Hello all,
>
> I have successfully compiled my own MPlayer using glibc.

Probably a newer version than mine (2.2.5).

> It plays pretty well everything that a normal MPlayer build would
> (ogg, mp3, XviD)

So mplayer -vc help prints a lot of different things, including DLLs?

> with the exception that there is currently no X11
> video support (and a few other things like no SDL or AAlib, etc.).

AAlib and SDL are not really necessary. But X11 is very handy to have.
Is vesa listed among the "mplayer -vo help" output?

> I'll be working on that and will let the list know as soon as I get
> more working.

Same here.

> Things that are currently not working but I'd like to work:
>
> X11 video support
> SDL sound/video (I doubt this one)

What good is SDL if you have X11? SDL is slower anyway.

> AAlib or libcaca graphics

For sending ASCII art video to a terminal?

> The current statically compiled binary size is 7.7MB, uncompressed.

It looks like a switch to uClibc may be necessary to keep the file size
in check (and help with the networking problems).

David
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