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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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> > You seem to have greater luck building with more options so I'd 
> > recommend people use your build.
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> Progress! I have gotten the MPlayer configure script to detect the
> existence of the X11 libraries. I will now need to get some
> additional libraries (ogg, aalib, sdl) that people are requesting.
> More as it develops.
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If you're going to continue building MPlayer binaries, I'd ask that you 
build one with ogg and libcaca support built in. If you build in libcaca 
support then aalib is a little useless.

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> > > > > MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
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> > > I have 1.0pre5. I didn't notice this until you pointed it out.
> > >      
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> > Might want to get the new version although I'm not sure what 
> > benefits you'll get besides bugfixes.
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> From the MPlayer site:
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> If you have a slow machine you should check out low resolution decoding with 
> libavcodec (-vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=0-3).
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> ^ This is a big one for me. This will probably help a lot with speed on
> my slower PC. This came with pre6.
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> > > > > 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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> > > I'll need to figure out why it says this is not optimal.
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> > Because I used --enable-runtime-cpudetection so that it would work 
> > on more CPU's.
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> I would expect it to work as well as the other method, at least on
> some CPUs.
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> > > > Is a 486 a good enough low end since that is the target of BL3?
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> > > Maybe. MPlayer isn't really intended for slow CPUs.
> > >
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> > MPlayer is intended for quality not performance.
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> The developers don't ignore performace, though: There are many
> optimizations, and the feature I mentioned earlier certainly
> trades quality for performace.
>  
I realize that, but I'm saying that quality comes before performance 
although they do not completely ignore performance.

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> > > > > 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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> > > > What are all of these used for?
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> > > AAlib/libcaca is for converting video into text. Have you seen so-
> > > called ASCII art? It's mainly useful when you want to send video
> > > to a terminal (which Steven (Clement) has said he wants to do).
> > >      
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> > It's also quite useful on older computers.
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> I'll have to try watching a DVD in text mode. :)
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Let me know how it looks ;)

> David
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Stephen Clement