[MPlayer-users] some ideas of mine

[Attila Kinali]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:35:57 +0000
jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:


> 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 you want to contact the developers, join the mplayer-dev-eng mailinglist
 
> 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

Then tell that RH, we cant do anything about a buggy gcc.
(here it comes) RTFM, it's written there.

> 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?

Dont think so. .so are binaries, this means they are bound to a certain
cpu type. Now, as PPC and IA32 are like day and night, it's not possible
w/o a full cpu emulation. And no, this is not planned as it would be
too much work.
What could be possible, if there were .so's for MacOS X to use them.
But as noone of the developers have such hardware.....
(see http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/donations.html)


> 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).

They should be supported, but may not work if the server is missconfigured.


			Attila Kinali

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