[MPlayer-users] Question about deleting external libraries dependencies

[Clément Bœsch]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 02:00:13AM -0800, John Brown wrote:
> On Wed, December 29, 2010 4:20:20 AM GMT - 5, Zongyao QU wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > We built  mplayer with dependencies on external libraries before, 
> > but now we want to trim the size of the files as much as possible.
> > We thought  there may be some codecs duplicated with ffmpeg, 
> > so delete the external libraries are the best way AFAIK.
> 
> > The libraries are 
> 
> > libdca
> > libfaac
> > libfaad2
> > libfontconfig
> > libfreetype
> > libogg
> > libspeex
> > libtheora
> > libvorbis
> 
> > But losing functionalities is unacceptable.
> 
> > So the question is which of these libraries could be excluded,
> > and the decoding abilities could be 
> > substituted by ffmpeg?
> 
> > Thank you very much
> 
> Hello Zongyao,
> 
> Fontconfig and freetype have nothing to do with encoding or decoding. MPlayer
> will work without them, but you will not have On Screen Display or subtitles.
> 
> The documentation at ffmpeg.org includes a list of supported video and audio
> codecs and container file formats.
> 
> Regards,
> Alias John Brown.
> 

You can also follow what have been discussed here about internal copies:
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2010-March/064046.html

Regards,

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Clément B.
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