Bug#397749: mplayer: Error on using Caca output

2006-11-13 Thread Fabian Greffrath
> Of course, I may reconsider this, if people bugs me saying that CACA is > useful to them. So I am leaving this bug open: I invite people who want > CACA in MPlayer to post a email in [EMAIL PROTECTED] saying so. Hey, I want CACA in MPlayer, too! To be precise, I 'd like to see _all_ possible f

Bug#397749: mplayer: Error on using Caca output

2006-11-09 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:40:25PM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:00:26PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > > Some -vo are (deliberately) not compiled in, to reduce dependency on > > external library; for the record : I discussed this choice with Arpi > > Why is it a bad thing

Bug#397749: mplayer: Error on using Caca output

2006-11-09 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:00:26PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > Some -vo are (deliberately) not compiled in, to reduce dependency on > external library; for the record : I discussed this choice with Arpi Why is it a bad thing to depend on external libraries? Debian is not Ultrix you know, we have sha

Bug#397749: mplayer: Error on using Caca output

2006-11-09 Thread Didier Raboud
Le jeudi 9 novembre 2006 12:00, A Mennucc a écrit : > Didier Raboud ha scritto: > > Caca (ASCII video) output not working > > Some -vo are (deliberately) not compiled in, to reduce dependency on > external library; for the record : I discussed this choice with Arpi > many years ago ; we decided to

Bug#397749: mplayer: Error on using Caca output

2006-11-09 Thread A Mennucc
Didier Raboud ha scritto: > Caca (ASCII video) output not working Some -vo are (deliberately) not compiled in, to reduce dependency on external library; for the record : I discussed this choice with Arpi many years ago ; we decided to eclude GGI (since it provides +- the same as SDL) and AALIB, s

Bug#397749: mplayer: Error on using Caca output

2006-11-09 Thread Didier Raboud
Package: mplayer Version: 1.0~rc1-3 Severity: normal Caca (ASCII video) output not working anymore but was working with previous "non-free" versions (Marillat's). $ mplayer -vo caca some_video.avi (...) Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. Exiting..