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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Weather report (was: [BL] MPlayer)
  • Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 04:20:19 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 11 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org

Ron Clarke wrote:

I have posted it on my website, in case it is no longer available
anywhere else.

Look at: http://www.ausreg.com/files/mplayer.bz2

Many thanks, I've just downloaded it. It works fine
for me.

I assume that this is on an i686? Sindi may be interested in the
name of the CPU which was used.

We may need more than just information. Our 605MHz Pentium Pro cpu is in a case which is missing the hard drive cage (we need to improvise something - my partner wants to attach a cage to the case fan somehow) and needs rails for the other drives (we need to improvise again, but these are metal ones and plastic was easier to improvise). With luck the neighbor will have a case we can use.

The 750MHz is a K7 and the case we scavenged needs no rails and has a cage already. However it is a K7 on some sort of board with THREE large heat sinks and fans running and there is also a case fan and if DVD playing is cpu intensive it may burn up. In a year or so people will start giving us normal and working fast PIIs and K7s.


Ron, TYVM for the hosting.

I must say, though, that I got quite a shock
when a streaming "radio" station gave me video as well
(which mplayer automatically displayed).

Add the "-vo null" or "-novideo" option if you don't want video.
Do you need to be in X to get the video automatically or does it invoke svgalib or framebuffer otherwise? (Or VESA if VESA 2.0 which we will have in the new computer).

I thought that you had a modem connection... how good was the
video quality?

I probably should build a version without video output drivers.
Since it's statically built, and is linked with numerous video
output libraries, this would greatly reduce filesize for those
who have no interest in video.

Yes, that would be very nice for most of our computers, also if you built it for older cpus to simplify the streaming audio scripts. If you could ALSO compile the full version that plays DVDs to work on a K6 500MHz I would appreciate it since that computer came with all the required pieces.
We have at least four fast K6 computers (300-500MHz).



David





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