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

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Stephen Clement wrote:

> David Moberg wrote:
>
> > Probably a newer version than mine (2.2.5).
> Yep, 2.3.2 on my end.


Below I see 1.0pre7-3.3.2 - did you mean 3.3.2 not 2.3.2?
Do newer versions do more are or they mostly bug fixes?

> > > 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?
> 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.

Was this detection so that it can be used on various systems?

Is a 486 a good enough low end since that is the target of BL3?  You can't 
play DVDs on a 386, can you?


> > > 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?
> 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.

What are all of these used for?

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

David suggested to me that I use 'strip' to make binaries smaller. 
Someone else suggested using upx (after strip).  Together they cut my 
binary size by about half.