[MPlayer-users] trying to use mplayer with knoppix ...

[Krzysztof Duchnowski]

On 28.08.2011 20:37, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> ~
>  I think mplayer should have such run time usage options instead of

Are you talking about "--enable-runtime-cpudetection"?
AFAIK it is buggy and nobody know how to fix it.


> having to compile them into it statically. The assumption that you
> install programs in a certain static context does not make sense to a
> lot of people out there and quite frankly it creates lots of problems,
> just check out how many answers are like "recompile the latest version
> ..."

It is because MPlayer is in permanent state of building/fixing.
There's no one who have time and willingness to make stable build to
point to it and say: "there is, use this".
So, instead, if MPlayer not working as you want, tell about it to
developers and compile newest source available - most of the cases it
will be fixed.


>  So, what I do is I carry around a linux/Debian-based live CD and a
> USB-powered microdrive and most admin people understand you are not
> "installing" anything, so they don't care. The con is that "you can't
> install anything to RAM anyway", so the idea conf would be to have the
> baseline installation as part of the CD, but include in your
> microdrive all other supporting data your may need, such as codecs,
> and the data you are using (videos and presentations) or editing
> (documents, code, database data feeds, ...)

So what's the problem. Can't /usr/local directory be located on liveCD
as image and mounted form it to filesystem?
MPlayer can be installed there (it is by default when you don't change
it in configure).
If you can install shared libraries on USB and normally use it can't you
do it with MPlayer?

As for using FFMPEG shared libraries in MPlayer I think right now it
could be a really problematic change for devs. Until codecs and formats
will be moved from MPlayer itself to FFMPEG it can't be done i think.

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Krzysztof 'DK75' Duchnowski
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