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

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > Too bad it will not also substitute for cdrecord (which won't work
> > on one of my burners until kernel 2.6).
>
> cdrecord is next on my list of things to work on.

I will be delighted to test out a new version on my 4X burner.

> > Does pkg automatically make use of bzip2 instead of gzip?
>
> No. The install/doinst.sh script runs bzip2 to unpack mplayer. If
> you want mencoder, too, the install-mencoder script also uses bzip2
> (plus another tool which I have provided) to unpack everything.
>
> > I am amazed you got this statically compiled into 3MB.  I was told
> > the SW9.1 package is about 25MB with two pages of additional
> > dependencies.
>
> That is HUGE! Do you know where this package is?

I could not find it at Slackware (where I discovered that SW9.1 has a 
2.5MB Xine package, plus another 1.5MB gui for it) but linuxpackages has 
numerous versions for SW 9.0 9.1 10.0 and 10.1.  The most recent is 
1.0pre7 for SW10.1, posted April 22 2005, and is 24MB.  A former list 
member had an earlier version and send me a 2-page listing of 
dependencies (at which point I decided to give up).  Someone else has 
posted a package of 45 graphical skins.

The page containing links to various versions is:
http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=5626
The download link for the 24MB package is
http://www.linuxpackages.net/redirect.php?id=5626&url=http://www.linuxpackages.net/download.php?id=5626 
(maybe you could skip the part before &url).

Xine claims to play CDs, DVDs, and streaming audio.

I found xine packages at linuxpackages.net.  They seem to be up to 1.0.1 
on xine-lib (for 9.1-10.1) - is that needed in addition to xine?  I found 
gxine 0.3.3-0.4.4 for SW9.0 9.1 and 10.1 And PLAIN xine 0.4.3 for SW 7 
with a two star rating (four is better).


Download link:  http:/www.linuxpackages.net/download.php?id=494

To play dvds with xine they advise 400MHz PII, also libcss and dvd plugin 
'available from this site'

In order to download with lynx from this site I had to edit lynx.cfg by 
addinging REFERER_WITH_QUERY:PARTIAL as instructed when I tried to 
download.  Lynx.config says the sites requiring this are not properly 
constructed and this is a workaround.

The xine directory for SW7 contains:
dvdlibcss.tgz  Feb 23 2001 26K  - the parts you need to add.
xine-0.3.7.tgz Feb 23 2001 482K - older version
xine.tgz       May 19 2001 527K - more recent version (4 years old)

I will try to get this working with BL2.  It offers a choice of four
skins with lots of png files, totalling 628K.  It seems to be gui only.

Tho the site says the only dependency is libz, ldd produced a page full of 
dependencies:  The usal ones needed for other X programs, libjpeg, png and 
tiff, but also (I don't have these):
libImlib.so.1    - 186K in /gtk1/imlib.tgz
libungif.so.4    - 104K in /gtk1/libungif.tgz
libesd.so.0     - 30K in /gtk1/esound.tgz
libaudiofile.so.0. - 66K in /gtk1/audiofil.tgz

Supported audio formats include OSS and ALSO and artsd and esd but esd is 
NOT RECOMMENDED.  Maybe it will work without that library at least.

Xine binary expands to 874K, plus about 150K per ski skins and 100K of 
plugin .so libraries.  If you need to add the above four dependency 
libraries it is another 350K or so, totalling about 1.5M, much smaller 
than mplayer despite being gui.  Plus documentation.

Can I delete all the .la files and keep just .so if I am not compiling for 
some program based on xine?


I will install the above libraries and test this on a realaudio file 
(which I would rather play from the command line with mplayer).

The details say it supports mpg ogg wav realaudio voc vox png etc.
No mention of Windows media format, but they are working on a Windows 
xine.

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