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Topic: Xine and Mplayer in DSL, Geexbox do, DSL not....why?

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davide

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Posted: Nov. 10 2004,18:22

it may depend on what file you're trying to play and what size it has.
with 32M of ram you can easily play a small video but Ireally don't think you can play , say, an entire divx movie.
i can play mpeg and avi movies easy enogh w/xmms. may you should check the plugins? dsl has no documentation but xmms has plenty on the net. good luck!

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ke4nt1

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Posted: Nov. 10 2004,18:45

I believe the mplayer version in the repository requires
a minimum cpu of PII-MMX or better...
I could be mistaken, and you state your cpu is MMX enabled..

Perhaps there is an older less-intensive version we could
build an extension from.

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pyronicte

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Posted: Nov. 11 2004,07:50

About xmms, I have read a lot of posts from a variety of sites. Always points to avi-xmms plugins, but I can't compile in DSL because of library lacks. Also I have been seeking for avi-xmms package for debian, but no chance. There was a reference to marillat debian package, but there only found xmms-mp4, and couldn't install for dependencies not meet.

If someone knows how I could install the plugin for avi/divx and from where, it would be very nice.

About 32 MB memory, with Geexbox I reproduced shreck in avi format. A little bit slower than other pc with more Ram, but it works.

In the other hand, don't you think it would be very interesting having large video avi reproducing in small, ancient and deprecated machines? So, you could gain a new multimedia player for your living-room, updatable, and cheap, very very cheap. In geexvox, movix and womp pages are projects refered to building a cd/dvd divx player with old machines, adding remote infrared controls. But in order to achieve this with DSL, it would be very nice a multimedia version that runs in older pc's.