Mario Berger wrote:

> All right, running the risk of sounding like a troll, why use mplayer at
> all?

Because it worksD I read the docs (in detail), installed every available
codec, installed a nice GUI (KMplayer) over it, and it reads about every
possible format. But I'll try Xine too.

Niki
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Mario Berger wrote:

> Where would you publish it? Is there a central site for Slack Tuts?
> Because a friend of mine have a couple of tuts on installing hardware,
> but no place to publish them to yet.

It's more like a private memento, nothing more.
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> Without wanting to discredit your project, just consider xine. Maybe
> write an extra section for it
>
> ~Mik

Xine supposedly has access to all codecs mplayer uses, so imagine my
suprise when it failed to play a simple avi!. Mplayer plays mpg's, avi's,
asf's and a bunch of other formats that m$ media player understands, and
even some it doesn't. And its safe (how a hacker can access a computer
through m$ media player is beyond me). So I'll keep watching my movies in
Linux with mplayer.

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> Xine supposedly has access to all codecs mplayer uses, so imagine my
> suprise when it failed to play a simple avi!. Mplayer plays mpg's, avi's,
> asf's and a bunch of other formats that m$ media player understands, and
> even some it doesn't. And its safe (how a hacker can access a computer
> through m$ media player is beyond me). So I'll keep watching my movies in
> Linux with mplayer.

Hmm. I can't talk for everyone then, but my xine does DivX, Xvid and a
bunch of other rather exotic stuff, even after I had to reinstall Slack
recently.

~Mik

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chino wrote:

> Xine supposedly has access to all codecs mplayer uses, so imagine my
> suprise when it failed to play a simple avi!

I also find that surprising. I have had no trouble at all with xine and avi,
or any other file format that mplayer can handle. I also really dig xine's
network access feature, which allows me to share a single DVD-R drive
between computers.

Jeffrey

chino wrote:

>> Without wanting to discredit your project, just consider xine. Maybe
>> write an extra section for it
>>
>> ~Mik
>
> Xine supposedly has access to all codecs mplayer uses, so imagine my
> suprise when it failed to play a simple avi!.

Did you make a /usr/lib/win32 symlink? What was the error message?
I used to have problems with xine, but after reading all the docs and
installing another frontend I've been very happy with it, and it seems
better than MPlayer to me.

> Few things suck whole sunny afternoons away as reading the documentation for
> MPlayer. Now my question. Anyone has a comment about these options? Maybe
> some better/other ones to recommend? Someone on the list maybe configures
> "the" perfect MPlayer on his or her Slack? Then some setup and install
> tutorial would be a truly nice thing. I don't know why, but ask a question
> on the MPlayer mailing list, and if you happen not to be a developer, you
> are suddenly facing something like twenty reincarnations of R. Margarino,
> only with considerably less urbane manners/

Fwiw, here's a simple way to build mplayer on slackware.
I modified the fontgen script to make it easier, or lazy for me,
to create osd fonts.
It's the slaker for mplayer at
http://www.freewebs.com/specfiles/sp.../specalls.html
The slaker does not contain the mplayer source,
just the build script and other stuff.
If you happen to download it, please look over the slackbuild
for possible errors and path changes.

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