Re: Viewing avi files

[Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>]

Sridhar M.A. wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:59:22AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
>   > 
>   > The mplayer team reminds that any precompiled binaries are 'unsupported'
>   > (whatever that means) because most of mplayer's configuration is done at
>   > compile time.  They suggest that the only way to get mplayer to perform
>   > decently on your machine is to compile it on your machine.  
>
> I think it is no longer correct. The latest versions of mplayer have run
> time optimizations. So, you can download the proper version of mplayer
> for you system: mplayer-386, mplayer-686, etc.
This is a technicality but run time optimization and run time cpu 
detection imply
that you don't need to download a version specific to your specific 
cpu... However
this does incur a small performance loss.

You also lose the ability to choose which features you want enabled.

The mplayer team still only support the official binary version on their 
website.
It is a rpm (redhat) package. It can be installed in debian using alien 
to convert it
to a deb file.

Bijan