[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer as a shared library?

[Luca Barbato]

brian mcgann wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm wondering if there is a reason I shouldn't try building
> MPlayer as a shared library. Has anyone done this?  I've made
> an initial, exploratory attempt, but there are modules
> that don't like to be compiled with position independent code.
>  Before I spend any more time on it, I'm wondering if this would
> be a futile exercise for some reason.  
> Any advice/suggestions would be appreciated.

mplayer may be used by other application through slave mode.
if you want a library you may use xine or libavcodec and libavformat.
Please look the mplayer archive for further flames... err... information
about it.

lu

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