On Wednesday 12 September 2001 9:39 am, you wrote:
> mplayer.sourceforge.net
>
> I have been using this player for several months now, and have just
> recently upgraded to a cvs version. In the stable and development
> versions, I have found mplayer to work flawlessly on any sort of video
> file.
>
> Could we look to include this in the main distribution as soon as possible?
>
> caveat - it requires gcc3 to build, and it lacks a gui (commands are done
> through the keyboard)
>
Weird, their own docs page still say to compile with gcc 2.95 and below - or
at least not Mandrake's gcc3 since that was compiled with gcc 2.96. Quoting
this almost verbatim, also the bit advising against building binaries.
Have not used the program myself, can it dynamically load plug-ins like XMMS
does, or do the libraries have to be accounted for at compile time? Since the
DivX 4 library is not open source, and Mandrake cannot possibly ship the
Win32 codecs, any binary Mandrake distributes will only link to ffmpeg and
libmpeg2.
>
> PS. Im thinking about joining the Red Cross and getting a ticket down to
> NYC as soon as humanely possible. Anyone have any information they could
> share with me?
>
>
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/11/1640219.shtml
Lots of contact info posted by users over there. Good luck, only wish I could
do more (I'm not American)
Michel
