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Stephen Clement wrote:
>
> >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 

It doesn't play.  The mplayer kludge writes a wav
file that you need something else to play.

> RealAudio/Video, Windows Media Player, etc. 
> that is free (as in both freedom and price), 
> works on Linux 

Sure, the fully-functional mplayer is wonderful.  
It does lots and lots of things.  But I was talking 
about the kludge.  It seems silly to me to use a 
huge executable simply to input streaming audio and 
output wav files (which is all the mplayer kludge
does).

> and is smaller than David's MPlayer.

For the very limited functionality of the kludge,
I'm sure that something smaller could can be found.

Cheers,
Steven

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