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

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

> 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.

Is there something else available to convert mp3, realaudio, wmp, and ogg 
to wav files and create a buffer?


> > 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).

The alternatives are larger - Realplayer and Xine - and they won't even 
work for me.

> > 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.
Let us know what you find.  I will use this in the meantime.

> Cheers,
> Steven
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