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

On Tue, 24 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:
> > /usr/local/bin/mplayer  (this version) is 7MB
> > Your first version for PI was 6MB unpacked.
>
> uClibc is smaller. Unfortunately, it doesn't work quite right with
> MPlayer on 2.2.16.

I got #3 to work by fixing an error in /root/.mplayer/config (which I 
thought of checking out when I looked at the stdout or stderr file).

ao=oss  (it was ess)
vo=vesa (it was X11)

I will try this same config file with #1 to play DVDs.
Does #3 do something better than #1 on a PIII?


> > Why does -noaspect give you a standard aspect (which I presume is the
> > picture that is wider than would be usual on a monitor)?  I will read
> > the documentation some time soon.
>
> MPlayer makes some strange aspect ratio scalings by default. I don't
> know why you need -noaspect. IMO -noaspect looks better.

I will try that tomorrow.

I would now copy mplayer #3 via the parport zip drive except to test it on 
the 533MHz computer, but it currently still has some of its parts in the 
previous 233MHz computer.