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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] MPlayer
  • Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:00:44 +0000 (UTC)

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, David Moberg wrote:

sindi keesan wrote:

Thanks, but could someone with a much faster connection than my
dialin volunteer to download this enormous package and post just
the racook codec separately?

It looks like you already have managed to separate the racook codec
from the others. I needed to download the all-codecs package (it
looks like essential, plus some Windows codecs and symlinks) to
compile this new MPlayer, so I still have that. I will put it on
a CD-R and email small codecs if anyone needs them.

What other codecs are commonly used by internet radio?

I haven't had any audio codecs missing, other than racook. Video
is another story.

Is a52 video? The WM audio I tried to listen to came with a small colored rectangle that changed frequently, vaguely stained-glass looking.

I will look for a way to make mplayer play only the audio portions of WM - with video, even with a 56K modem, a 28K broadcast is full of skips (and the video part of it is not edifying or even interesting).

I hit Ctr-C to get out of the WM broadcast and was rewarded with the loss of my two VGA vts, which went and stayed blank. TTL kept working. Next time I will experiment with running mplayer on a WM file in VGA (rather than TTL).

Many thanks for all your work.

I hope this will be the last version until 'they' release a stable
1.0 version of MPlayer.

Is that likely to be before or after a 'stable' FreeDOS?

I'm glad to hear that everything is working.
mp3, rm, and wm, are working - what more should I check, the DVD playing?
(First I need to get the DVD drive to behave properly with IRQs and DMAs again).


Speaking of DVDs, we were given a 500MHz Compaq Armada laptop with no power supply or hard drive (or hard drive enclosure), for which we found an HP power supply. It has some ROM problem which might be brought on by a combination of a dead battery (three of which came with it - the least dead one worked for two boots only, from floppy or CD-ROM) and a BIOS which is too old for the Pentium III Coppermine cpu. The solution is to flash with a BIOS upgrade. The Compaq/HP sites only offers BIOS upgrades for a particular hard drive (which we have not got). I found a set of BIOS upgrades (Award Bios 2.5 6 7 8 9 and A) that are supposed to work on another computer with the same CPU. Are BIOS upgrades specific to the cpu or the computer? I was hoping we could get the thing to boot one more time from floppy disk, then make a 4MB RAMdisk in DOS, cable the file to it with LLPro, and try to run the .exe in DOS. With our luck it will require Windows. Someone else managed to use a ROM burner but we don't have one of those.

Then we could attempt to make a large RAMdisk with linux and load linux to it from CD-ROM drive. I presume we would need to use a kernel that produces larger than 4MB RAMdisks. We could then run mplayer from RAMdisk to watch DVDs. The laptop came with two DVD-ROM drives, at least one of which works to boot from a linux CD. Or could we possibly run linux from CD and use mplayer, or would it be too slow that way? Not that we normally take the time to watch many movies, but it is a challenge.

There are 64MB onboard and two 128MB memory modules, which won't work in the Toshiba laptop.

Would a DVD-ROM drive from this computer work in a slower Gateway laptop which lets you plug in either a floppy drive or a CD-ROM drive? If so, is linux likely to identify it as a plain IDE drive?

This is all theory unless we get the thing to boot consistently. We have left the best of the dead batteries charging for two days and don't want to try booting again until we are ready to flash the ROM.

> > David

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