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[Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>]

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?
>  
Neither did I.

>  
>
> > but it needs a later kernel and ALSA to actually 
> > play sound.  
> >    
>
> Making it less relevant to BasicLinux.
>  
Ah, but the script is what makes it quite very relevant.

>  
>
> > 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 dare you to find something that can play RealAudio/Video, Windows 
Media Player, etc. that is free (as in both freedom and price), works on 
Linux and is smaller than David's MPlayer.

> Cheers,
> Steven
>  
Stephen Clement