Sridhar M.A. wrote: >On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:59:22AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > The mplayer team reminds that any precompiled binaries are 'unsupported' > > (whatever that means) because most of mplayer's configuration is done at > > compile time. They suggest that the only way to get mplayer to perform > > decently on your machine is to compile it on your machine. > >I think it is no longer correct. The latest versions of mplayer have run >time optimizations. So, you can download the proper version of mplayer >for you system: mplayer-386, mplayer-686, etc. > This is a technicality but run time optimization and run time cpu detection imply that you don't need to download a version specific to your specific cpu... However this does incur a small performance loss.
You also lose the ability to choose which features you want enabled. The mplayer team still only support the official binary version on their website. It is a rpm (redhat) package. It can be installed in debian using alien to convert it to a deb file. Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
