On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:38:58AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:36:30 -0500 > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip /> > There are unofficial .debs of mplayer packaged by developer Marillat > (http://marillat.free.fr). <snip />
you should not use any packaged version of mplayer for the following reasons (see http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/users_against_developers.html#binary) 1. Law: Mplayer "contains several files with incompatible licenses especially on the redistribution clauses. As source files, they are allowed to coexist in a same project." 2. Technical: "MPlayer's speed (MMX, SSE, fastmemcpy, etc) optimizations are determined during compilation. Thus a compiled binary contains very processor-specific code. An MPlayer binary compiled for K6 will die on Pentiums and vice versa. This has to be workarounded by runtime detection, which is not an easy thing to do becase it causes massive speed decrease. If you don't believe (it was explained in details 10000 times on mplayer-users, search the archive), solve it and send us a patch. Someone begun work on it, but disappeared since then." "* MPlayer's video/audio system is not plugin based. It is compiled into the binary, thus making the binary depend on various libraries (the GUI depends on GTK, DivX4 depends on libdivxdecore, SDL depends on libSDL, every SDL release contains an unique bug that has to be workarounded during compiletime, X11 output compiles differently for X3 and X4, etc). just download the source and do a fakeroot debian/rules binary and it will compile fine, optimised for the system you compile it on. yours martin -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------ NO HTML MAILS PLEASE PGP/GPG encrypted and signed messages preferred
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