Paul wrote: > "mpeg_play" isn't even available on a current Ubuntu (so also not > Debian, right?) release.
Also not readily available for Fedora. > Seems like the right swiss army knife to be using these days would > be mplayer, which appears to be available in most places, and which > has never failed to play any type of video I've given it. I like it. How about ffplay as a fallback? > I got curious, and found that the mpeg_play support was in the > initial Doug Morris version, dated April '99. There are other > suspicious program recommendations from the same commit: > > ivs_replay (for mhshow-show-application/x-ivs) > richtext (for text/richtext) > rt2raw (for text/richtext) None of those are readily available for Fedora. > plus probably half a dozen someone archaic looking programs for audio > support. I don't use any of them. > And others that Doug didn't introduce, but which are somewhat long in > the tooth: > xv > soffice Both are readily available and work on Fedora. It can create /bin/soffice as a symlink to libreoffice. > Seems like some of this could be cleaned up, but some degree of > backward compatibility (for folks that actually have mpeg_play > installed, or for those that actually have all of the patches and > libraries needed for xv these days) would probably be good. The current choices could be left as the initial choices in mhn.defaults.sh. Though I wouldn't mind if the obvious obsolete ones were ripped out. David
