On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:26:30PM -0500, Luis Bustamante wrote: > MPlayer is a movie player for Linux.
http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/DOCS/faq.html says: Q: Are there rpm/deb/... packages of MPlayer? A: You can make a .deb package for yourself, check the Debian packaging section. It's strongly discouraged to use precompiled packages of MPlayer, since it (currently) highly depends on compile-time options and optimizations! Precompiled packages are COMPLETELY unsupported by the MPlayer team! Also http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/users_against_developers.html#binary: * 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). You may say: yes, let's make 30 versions of downloadable binaries! We won't. We will make these stuff pluggable in the future. Do you have a response to these? It sounds at the moment that the mplayer developers would rather not see any binary packages; at least, if they've changed their mind about this, they haven't updated their documentation. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]