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[Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>]

David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Clement" <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>
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> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have successfully compiled my own MPlayer using glibc.
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> Probably a newer version than mine (2.2.5).
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Yep, 2.3.2 on my end.

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> > It plays pretty well everything that a normal MPlayer build would
> > (ogg, mp3, XviD)
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> So mplayer -vc help prints a lot of different things, including DLLs?
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MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner (Family: 6, 
Stepping: 3)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with 
--disable-runtime-cpudetection.

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> > with the exception that there is currently no X11
> > video support (and a few other things like no SDL or AAlib, etc.).
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> AAlib and SDL are not really necessary. But X11 is very handy to have.
> Is vesa listed among the "mplayer -vo help" output?
>  
Yep, I compiled in VESA support :)

I do consider something like AAlib or libcaca necessary myself. Also, 
SDL's sound output I find works no matter what, it's quite good.

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> > I'll be working on that and will let the list know as soon as I get
> > more working.
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> Same here.
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> > Things that are currently not working but I'd like to work:
> >
> > X11 video support
> > SDL sound/video (I doubt this one)
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> What good is SDL if you have X11? SDL is slower anyway.
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SDL's sound support seems to work no matter what for me...

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> > AAlib or libcaca graphics
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> For sending ASCII art video to a terminal?
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Yep. I frequently view movies, etc. over SSH connections so libcaca is a 
must for me.

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> > The current statically compiled binary size is 7.7MB, uncompressed.
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> It looks like a switch to uClibc may be necessary to keep the file size
> in check (and help with the networking problems).
>  
I've been looking at that possibility but I don't feel like recompiling 
all of my deps for uclibc.

> David
>  
I'm currently working on libcaca and X11, and quite possibly SDL. X11 is 
the most important currently, however.

Stephen Clement