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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] MPlayer
  • Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 23:16:00 +0000 (UTC)

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

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

I don't like it as well as MPlayer. It needs many different
things:

# ldd /usr/bin/xine
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40024000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40034000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4003d000)
libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x40054000)
libxineutils.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxineutils.so.0 (0x4007a000)
libxine.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxine.so.0 (0x40084000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x400a0000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0x400af000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x400c4000)
libXtst.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6 (0x400c7000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400cd000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0x40198000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x401bb000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)


The version I found at the slackware package site required four packages from /gtk1/ as well. Maybe it depends how you compile whether you need those. One was for esd. I will add those and see if it works.

>
This version I have ^ has trouble playing files that MPlayer works
correctly with.

Where did you get this version and which number is it?


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).

xine is the usual reference to the standard frontend, which is a GUI
which runs under X11. xine-lib is the actual player.


Could it be used without a gui frontend to play music?

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'

Usually advised with any player.

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.

Needed for commercial DVDs. MPlayer has this built-in.


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

For loading images.

It refused to play a music file without this. Is this something needed by the gui and is there a way do use it without the gui?


libungif.so.4 - 104K in /gtk1/libungif.tgz
libesd.so.0 - 30K in /gtk1/esound.tgz

ESD. Blah.

They advised against esd but I doubt xine will load without the library, unless maybe you can compile it to do so.


libaudiofile.so.0. - 66K in /gtk1/audiofil.tgz

Supported audio formats include OSS and ALSO and artsd and esd but
esd is NOT RECOMMENDED.

esd is fairly high latency and has serious sync problems.

Maybe it will work without that library at least.

Doubtful. If it's listed in ldd it won't run without it.

Phooey. Well, I am still under 4MB. Beats Realplayer any day.


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?

Yes. .la files are not even needed by all compiling situations.


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

I doubt that it has very good realaudio support.

I could not figure out what version is the current one. This seems to be a few years old. It might play older Realaudio formats at least.
Maybe the most recent version would play better than what you have?


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.

IIRC Windows media is limited to audio.

I don't want streaming video. Only reason to play DVDs is that our stupidly designed free DVD/TV will only play the first of several episodes on one library DVD unless you buy a remote control to operate the onscreen menu. I am after a way to listen to internet radio. I now have five streaming MP3 stations but they are all US and I like to listen to other languages. We do have a local Albanian-language program at least.




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