Include MPlayer in beta?

[Steven Haigh]

I'm just compiling up Mplayer available from http://www.mplayerhq.hu - 
according to the documentation, it should be a killer for playback of 
all media types in *nix...

What are the chances of this replacing kaboodle or noatun as a default 
media player? Surely having out of the box support for most media file 
types in existance would be awesome!

[Laur Ivan]

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Yop, it would be nice...

...but AFAIremember, providing a fully featured player in the distribution 
would fall under the same (legal) issues as xmms.. Plus, when you compile 
MPlayer, you get arch. optimisations (different code used for AMD and P4 for 
example), which I'm not sure is feasible/doable.

Also, there's a kde wrapper (KMPlayer) somewhere in the packages..

On Tuesday 02 September 2003 16:04, Steven Haigh wrote:
> I'm just compiling up Mplayer available from http://www.mplayerhq.hu -
> according to the documentation, it should be a killer for playback of
> all media types in *nix...
>
> What are the chances of this replacing kaboodle or noatun as a default
> media player? Surely having out of the box support for most media file
> types in existance would be awesome!

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Laur Ivan                                       Tel  : [phone]
Software Design Engineer                        eMail: [e-mail]
Corvil Ltd.
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[Christopher A. Williams]

You can also get MPlayer from fedora and freshrpms with all of the
plug-ins and skins ready to go. Just need to grab it if you have already
configured apt or yum for their repositories.

Cheers,

Chris

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:05, Laur Ivan wrote:
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> Yop, it would be nice...
>
> ...but AFAIremember, providing a fully featured player in the distribution 
> would fall under the same (legal) issues as xmms.. Plus, when you compile 
> MPlayer, you get arch. optimisations (different code used for AMD and P4 for 
> example), which I'm not sure is feasible/doable.
>
> Also, there's a kde wrapper (KMPlayer) somewhere in the packages..
>
> On Tuesday 02 September 2003 16:04, Steven Haigh wrote:
> > I'm just compiling up Mplayer available from http://www.mplayerhq.hu -
> > according to the documentation, it should be a killer for playback of
> > all media types in *nix...
> >
> > What are the chances of this replacing kaboodle or noatun as a default
> > media player? Surely having out of the box support for most media file
> > types in existance would be awesome!
>
> Laur Ivan                                       Tel  : [phone]
> Software Design Engineer                        eMail: [e-mail]
> Corvil Ltd.
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[Féliciano Matias]

Le mar 02/09/2003 à 18:05, Laur Ivan a écrit :
> Plus, when you compile 
> MPlayer, you get arch. optimisations (different code used for AMD and P4 for 
> example)

This is not more true. Use :
./configure --enable-runtime-cpudetection

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 18:05, Laur Ivan wrote:
> ...but AFAIremember, providing a fully featured player in the distribution 
> would fall under the same (legal) issues as xmms.. Plus, when you compile 
> MPlayer, you get arch. optimisations (different code used for AMD and P4 for 
> example), which I'm not sure is feasible/doable.

MPlayer supports automatic runtime CPU detecttion, so it can be compiled
on, let's say, a P4, and run with no performance penalty on an AMD
Athlon XP.
> Also, there's a kde wrapper (KMPlayer) somewhere in the packages..

I use Kaffeine... It looks very good :-)