[MPlayer-users] Re: New to MPlayer

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, thcuong wrote:

t>I want to build a MPEG video player (Linux) in 3,5 months, in Java or C, 
t>so which one is the easiest to develop amongst these:

Ah.. Are you really stuck between java or C? Writing frontend to 
mplayer -slave would be much easer with tcl/tk, for example.

t>MPlayer,

Hmm... You can use -slave option to write your own gui. You can make
quite powerful player ;)

t>FFMPEG

This is great library, for decoding mpeg1/2/4, some audio formats, etc.
You'll have to write demuxer and some other components yourself,
however.

t>Xine

forget it - it may be too hard, and you'll have to hack xine sources
anyway. You can try xine-remote, but you'll have to run xine anyway...
What's the point in your own player, then? ;)

t>Gstreamer

never tried it...

Btw, if you need only MPEG1, you can try smpeg - library by loki games,
it works well.

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Vladimir