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[technosaurus]

here is a patch for mplayer - they seem to have broken the gtk1 gui a while back

[goingnuts]

Thanks for the patch. I am still not able to build a static mplayer - that is: I can build it but it only shows a 2 cm broad band with psychedelic colors in the top of my screen when playing...
There is gxine-0.2.1 as alternative - but I never managed to do a static xinelib that works.
Found a third way - a pre xine lib - but cant find my notes or remember the name. I think it was in one of the first puppys or maybe in a pre-puppy thing...
Would be nice to have a decent videoplayer....
Update: the name was xanim: http://xanim.polter.net/
Although it compiles I haven't been able to play anything with it...

[goingnuts]

Found a small net traffic sniffer: dietsniff-0.4
Amazing to view what traffic goes behind the scene...

[Ibidem]

[technosaurus]

[goingnuts]

Ibidem:Thanks!
technosaurus:A new mplayer (MPlayer 1.1) out - I will try to work a little with that one - although the configure options are more than 200 lines of possibilities - might get lost just trying to configure that beast!

Would be nice if there was a simple standalone avi-player and another simple mpg-player ala minimp3-player but I havent been able to track one...
Not sure if xine-lib can be build static at all?

[technosaurus]

The patch was against v1.1 ... I found it on ftp before the official release announcement and iirc the only options I passed were for enabling the GUI (i pass all of my CFLAGS in my gcc wrapper) the configure script worked fine, except my non-standard jpeg lib was missing encoding capability and I ran out of time to rebuild.

[goingnuts]

Finally got xine-lib build and also gxine...but seems that xine-lib wont load plugins statically - so for now it seems as a no-go...

Mplayer-1.1 builds fine with normal glibc and dynamic linking. Video fails when linked static though. Did not manage to build it with uclibc/tinyX11.

But managed to "reproduce" a diet libc build of MPlayer 1.0pre7 with gcc 4.2.2. Ended up in 5847K (1927K upx) for mplayer and 4712K (1387K upx) for mencoder.

It plays mp3, avi, mpeg and dvd-isoimage/dvd in drive (dvd without sound ) with the standard Xvesa in P412 but unfortunatly the static build (uclibc/tinyX11) Xvesa has some problems so I have to dig into that (plays ok fullscreen Xvesa but not in windowed mode).

I expect to be able to decrease size or add/remove filters/drivers/features if I manage to transfer the build to uclibc/tinyX11 as the diet-X11-libs are quite large.

Update 010612: Removed the attached bin view later post

[Ibidem]

[goingnuts]

Removed mplayer build from previous post.
New build MPlayer-1.0pre7_static_010712.tar.gz:
* Size reduced to 4798K (2081K upx)
* Included video via fbdev
* OSD-menu works (ex. mplayer -menu -subfont-text-scale 3 movie_file2play)
* Subtitles (ex. mplayer -sub subtitle_file movie_file2play)
* Sound works with dvd-play (ex. mplayer -alang en -slang da dvd://1)
* Shipped with some of the needed auxilary config-files

[technosaurus]

today's puzzle:
I figured out this:

[jamesbond]

[goingnuts]

[technosaurus]

Thank-you guys, I'll keep looking though. I am pretty set on direct streaming. Iirc my vlc build handled YouTube at the time. I may try a new build based on my old vlc build settings (although I think they may be using xcb vs. X11 now)

[jamesbond]

I forgot to say that when I said "it works with ffmpeg" I actually mean that "it works with ffplay and ffmpeg".
From what little I know about vlc, vlc has rtsp input plugin too but you need to have openRTSP libraries installed - otherwise the plugin won't be compiled in.