Re: mplayer (preview)

[Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net>]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:22:47AM +0200, Björn Sandell wrote:
> On 5 May 2002, Jean-Yves Burlett wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "BS" == Björn Sandell <biorn@dce.chalmers.se> writes:
> > 
> >     BS> Here's a first cut at a mplayer port. The plan is to have it ready when
> >     BS> 0.90 is released. 
> > 
> >     BS> This is my first attempt to create a port, so please comment!
> > 
> > It works quite fine here (-current athlon box) (as long as your remove
> > patch-Makefile).
> > It could be nice to put the sun audio output by default, I think it is
> > just a configuration file thing.
> 
> I could disable oss, would that upset anyone?
> 
> > Adding /usr/local/{lib,include} as extra directories to configure, I
> > could get it to read DVDs (w/ libdvdread). It gets out of sync faster
> > than ogle but still is fine.
> 
> Really. I tried it on a PIII-500 and it was way behind ogle...
> 
> > The fact is that this port seems to try to autodetect too much things,
> > putting stricter defaults might be better.
> 
> Yup, some things will change here. Than againg, maybe is a good thing to
> tack on --with-extra{inc,lib}dir and just use whats available?

No, packaging can't work with that.
But don't worry too much, it's not what's important right now.