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

On Sat, 14 May 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > No, mplayer second version also works on my
> > PI's
>
> I thought that version didn't work properly?
It converts but does not play with our kernel and OSS.

> > but it needs a later kernel and ALSA to actually
> > play sound.
>
> Making it less relevant to BasicLinux.
>
> > However David came up with a nice script in which
> > mplayer converts the sound to .wav and sox plays it
> > as streaming audio.
>
> A temporary kludge at best.  For such limited
> functionality from mplayer, we can surely find
> something *much* smaller.

I hope David will compile a smaller version that also plays music with our 
kernel and OSS on older computers, but in the meantime you only need to 
add his mplayer.tgz package to Christof's BL sound packages to play very 
nice sounding streaming audio.

The Mplayer package I found at linuxpackages.net is 24MB and has lots of 
dependencies so this 3MB static version is a real improvement.

 > > Cheers,
> Steven