On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:38:58AM +0800, csj wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:36:30 -0500
> dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> wrote:
<snip />
> There are unofficial .debs of mplayer packaged by developer Marillat
> (http://marillat.free.fr).
<snip />
you should not use any packaged version of mplayer for the following
reasons (see
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/users_against_developers.html#binary)
1. Law: Mplayer "contains several files with incompatible licenses
especially on the redistribution clauses. As source files,
they are allowed to coexist in a same project."
2. Technical:
"MPlayer's speed (MMX, SSE, fastmemcpy, etc) optimizations are
determined during compilation. Thus a compiled binary contains
very processor-specific code. An MPlayer binary compiled for K6
will die on Pentiums and vice versa. This has to be workarounded
by runtime detection, which is not an easy thing to do becase it
causes massive speed decrease. If you don't believe (it was
explained in details 10000 times on mplayer-users, search the
archive), solve it and send us a patch. Someone begun work on it,
but disappeared since then."
"* MPlayer's video/audio system is not plugin based. It is
compiled into the binary, thus making the binary depend on various
libraries (the GUI depends on GTK, DivX4 depends on libdivxdecore,
SDL depends on libSDL, every SDL release contains an unique bug
that has to be workarounded during compiletime, X11 output
compiles differently for X3 and X4, etc).
just download the source and do a fakeroot debian/rules binary and it will
compile fine, optimised for the system you compile it on.
yours martin
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