[MPlayer-users] G4 Powerbook, LinuxPPC. works?

[Mike Melanson]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Jason Radford wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi all,
> 
> In reading the FAQ I didnt see anything about running mplayer on a Mac. 
> 
> Does anyone know if running LinuxPPC+Mplayer would work?  I am figuring
> on the worst because of the windows .dll's but I thought I should at least
> ask first.

	As another individual has noted, if you have AVI/ASF (i.e., video
for Windows) movies, they probably use Win32-only binary codecs. You won't
be able to play those movies under Linux/PPC.

	However, I have compiled and tested some of MPlayer's
functionality on my Linux/PPC machine, so I'm confident that the open
source components will work fine (and I know for a fact that my own
decoders and file demuxers are okay on that platform). So if you have a
lot of FLI files or AVIs that use MS Video-1, you're all set...:)

	-Mike Melanson