DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Mplayer

DSL is getting better and better. I guess DSL is still missing video player.
Mplayer is a nice DVD,VCD,mpg player.
Is it too big for DSL ?
Another suggestion is you can save some space by removing unused fluxbox theme. I believe that default DSL theme is good enough. So, there is no need to redundancy themes. You may put it as an optional download.

Looks like mplayer is too big, per this thread.

FYI,

mplayer is about 2MB (dynamically linked and stripped) but it's ALL the codecs that take up >13MB. Perhaps only picking out a few, like MPEG 1, 2, and 4, and... ?

MoviX does it in about 5MB, maybe that's a good starting point?

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KFF

yes i'm strongly agree with you ,KnightFire.
We can choose to install only some codecs like MPG,Divx.
But my linux experience is limited. Can some linux guru write a small script like Firefox download?
Any help would be appreciated.

Actually, that's a very good idea - if you get and install MPlayer with the few codecs you want (WMV, MPEG, AVI, DVD, DivX, and maybe MP3, you'll be set. I should do some checking on that, and see what I can come up with. Then again, my machine right now is deader than dead - I'm just LiveCD'ing it for now.

>>PhrozenFear

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