From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 02:08:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3A016A4CE for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 02:08:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from av15-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (av15-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6002243D1D for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 02:08:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av15-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 6BE3B37E4F; Wed, 26 May 2004 11:08:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.181]) by av15-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 566B037E42 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 11:08:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 1342237E46 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 11:08:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 27265 invoked by uid 1001); 26 May 2004 09:08:01 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 11:08:01 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Joe Schmoe Message-ID: <20040526090801.GA26585@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Joe Schmoe , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040526080914.55717.qmail@web21508.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040526080914.55717.qmail@web21508.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer + realaudio ... what to expect when installing ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:08:17 -0000 On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:09:14AM -0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: > Hello, > > I have a simple goal - to convert realaudio files I > have saved to my drive into mp3s, on the fbsd command > line. > > The answer, I have been told, is to install mplayer > with realaudio support, and then just: > > mplayer file.ra -ao pcm > > That sounds reasonable. But I have two issues. > > First, I see no mplayer+realaudio in the ports tree - > just mplayer. How do I get realaudio support into > mplayer ? cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer make WITH_REALPLAYER=yes install It is very useful to read the Makefile for a port to find out various options for it. > > Second, just what kind of install is mplayer (and > mplayer + realaudio, for that matter) ?? I want to > keep this system nice and clean - and I will be upset > if mplayer installs a million dependencies, or does > something lame like install X for me, when I don't > want it. So can someone describe just what an mplayer > install is like ... and how to keep it from installing > X, etc., if that is what it does ? mplayer does have about a gazillion dependencies (most of them optional) including X (not optional), so if you don't want X installed then mplayer isn't for you. (It is a multimedia player after all, and to play video you need graphics support.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se