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  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL2 Internet Radio was mplayer, was Re: Flash and Youtube
  • Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:28:38 +0000 (UTC)


Mplayer 0.93 which I just compiled is now working
online on a PII non-MMX laptop

I just compiled another version with support for video: vesa, svga, and fbdev (not x11), which plays sound and dvds on the P 4 where I compiled it, and sound on a P 2, but there is something screwy about the P2 (Thinkpad 770E) and I cannot even mount a CD to look it at, so of course mplayer also cannot find it.

/dev/hdc is found in dmesg, and I boot from Ultimate Boot CD (thence to the hard drive). Some hardware problem that is preventing boot from any hard drive may be interfering with mounting the optical drive in linux.

This will still make a nice radio. 266MHz and 288MB
Opera 9 with Xfbdev and icem use about 20MB on a blank page so
anything with 32MB RAM should work as a radio, but Seamonkey 1
loads faster on a faster cpu and accesses more sites.

Mplayer 0.93 binary is about 3MB stripped and gunzipped (chmod +x).
1.0pre7try2 (first one to work with plugin) is double that but uses the same amount of RAM to play offline (about .5% of 512MB = 2-3MB).
And won't work online with older laptops.

I compiled for architecture and cpu both 586 and it works with i686. The version with video support is very slightly larger than novideo so you probably don't need both. The former omits support for MMX2, 3DNow2 and SSE since the older computers don't have those. I also disabled png and jpeg and other stuff not related to DVDs or sound. Amazingly it still worked on the first try. I disabled x11 because it uses more RAM and I also I was missing at least one library needed to compile it.

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/mplayer-0.93-i586-glibc236-novideo.gz
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/mplayer-0.93-i586-glibc236-nox11.gz
About 1MB per file. Needs libtermcap.so.2 and glibc 2.3.6.

I will install BL2 to a 333MHz DELL and a 380MHz Compaq (64MB RAM, won't recognize more) with DVD drives and test mplayer on them. I can play
DVDs at 500Mhz with framedrop in BL2, and on a 400Mhz iMac where the video is probably optimized for it.

On the P 4 2.7GHz mplayer i586 appears to be using 1/3 of cpu time without the -hardframedrop option. This implies you need 900Mhz to play without dropping frames, so maybe 300MHz would play 1/3 of the frames.

Perhaps a downloaded youtube video would work at the slower speed if lower resolution. Not sure if mplayer 0.93 plays flv or mp4. I will attempt to compile a newer mplayer for i586 video if anyone is interested.

Sindi Keesan




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