On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 06:16, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:54:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > mplayer is quite slick. I really like how the GUI is optional in > > mplayer, and fail to grasp how people coming from Windows see this as > > a bug. Media players don't need 40,000 pounds of chrome over them > > about as much as they need to be web browsers, and I think a good > > portion of Windows users agree (contrary to the existance of Windows > > Media Player). Honestly, what do these people expect? > > In fact I don't think I've ever even got mplayer's GUI to work. I guess > if I had to I'd figure it out, but there's really so little incentive to > do so ... > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have the gui working when I build it on my own, although I have so many -dev packages installed to support its functionality that I sometimes wonder if I'm not doing development work on it just to run ./configure ;) Actually, my trick has always been to run ./configure with the settings I want for it before running debian/rules - Christian's packages, while great for probably most environments, still may not be perfect for every last implementation due to the underlying design of mplayer. Even the default debian/rules doesn't give me quite the reliability I want, while with my options to ./configure, I can sit back and watch my business and news channels over the Internet 24/7, and check the vcds I'm burning of my parents' home movies (they converted 8 mm film that had broken numerous times to VHS, which the vcr then proceeded to eat. Since there is no audio, each two hour vhs tape is comfortably fitting on a single vcd.) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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