I think xv may be falling off the maintenance list. I struggle to compile it on OSX but that may just be that better native (nonX) tools exist.
Mplayer forked. Many people use MPV now. On Sun, 19 Dec 2021, 8:18 am David Levine, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
