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

I also tried to view a .png file (in both CLI and Xvesa) and was told
Failed to open /dev/rtc.  Should that be included in the package, along 
with some default  /root/.mplayer/font.desc codecs.conf and input.conf
so as to avoid error messages that would confuse beginners?

rtc - real time clock

mknod rtc c 10 135  - removed that error message but mplayer still does 
not 'play' a png file - maybe it is not supposed to do that.

While looking for more information I learned that I could put into 
/root/.mplayer/config the line ao=oss (so I don't need to specify the 
audio output CLI with -ao oss). I also added vo=X11.  mplayer -ao help or 
-vo help list the available devices.  Maybe David would want to set up a 
default config file that works with BL's.

I also ran across someone's list of modules they used for ALSA sound, 
which included snd_seq_device, snd_page_alloc, snd_timer, snd_pcm_oss and 
snd_mixer_oss, among others.  None of these are needed to use mpg123 or 
play/sox and I don't think they are in Christof's packages for BL.
Which modules does Ron insmod?

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> The binary copy of mplayer (which I am hosting) has been
> updated. Here is a list of changes:
>
> - It is now mplayer.tgz, a Slackware package. Use pkg
> to start the basic installation
The install script appears to unpack the mplayer.bz file and then probably 
uses bunzip2 to decompress it.  Installation worked fine.


> - Based on uClibc. This did not affect the size
> much, however glibc is no longer needed to get full
> networking support
> - caca color TTY output has been added
> - libparanoia support. MPlayer can now replace
> cdparanoia and cdda2wav.
> - Live.COM for accessing RTSP protocol streams
> - Ogg Theora support
> - CPU autodetection. You can use it on a 386
> - mencoder, man page, vidix drivers included
> - OpenGL and ESD support has been dropped. (Who uses
> these?)
> - The download size has increased to right around 3MB.
> The mplayer binary itself is roughly the same size.
> - Others which I have not kept track of
>
> bunzip2 or bzip2 is needed to install.
>
> Get it at:
>
> http://geocities.com/davidjmoberg/mplayer.tgz
>
> David
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