[MPlayer-users] some ideas of mine

[jbrown105 at speedymail.org]

I have 4 ideas/complaints to post here.

First, it would be nice if one could contact the developers
w/o having to use a mailing list, although that is not an important
issue.
(If there is just a form of contanct, dont bother flaming me about it,
I actually dont need it, its just something that would be useful
IMHO).

Second, I think that it is bad that MPlayer won't work/support with the
gcc
provided by RedHat, but I have a temporary compromise (which works
without
having to compile anything). This site
(http://www.trilithium.com/software/misc/)
has some very good gcc v3 rpms which should work fine for MPlayer, and
are easy to install for RedHat users. (I didn't have the megs to
compile
gcc v3, but I did have space to use the rpms and then compile MPlayer).
I did the following set of commands (in order to separate gcc v3 from
egcs):

md /opt/gcc3;rpm --root /opt/gcc3 --initdb;rpm --root /opt/gcc3 -Uvh
<all the gcc v3 rpms>

Hopefully the MPlayer web site will endorse this or some similar method
to ease the friction between the 2 conflicting sides (the ones who hate
egcs
and the RedHat users who don't want to compile gcc).

Thirdly, and I know this is a remote possibility, I was wondering, is
there
any way of using the RealPlayer so libraries to give MPlayer RealPlayer
G3 support? Not by disassembling to create a clone, but rather to use
the so libraries themselves (say to get the list of exported functions
and figure out which function does what, so then one could create a
codec for MPlayer which would use the RealPlayer libraries to do the
real decoding). Is this a good idea, or am I missing out on something?

Finally, I was wondering when/if MediaPlayer .asx support will be
added to MPlayer (assuming that there wasn't a newer version with this
already released).

Thank you for your time.

jbrown

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