Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 26 May 2004 19:32:50 +0200
From:      Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mplayer + realaudio ... what to expect when installing ...
Message-ID:  <40B4D4C2.5020900@broadpark.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040526090801.GA26585@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
References:  <20040526080914.55717.qmail@web21508.mail.yahoo.com> <20040526090801.GA26585@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Erik Trulsson wrote:

<snip>

> 
> 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.)
> 

Actually, you can pass make WITHOUT_GUI=yes and it will not install X. 
Yes, it does display videos on the command line. No, it's not pretty.

Anyway, for just converting RealAudio into MP3, it should do the job nicely.

-Henrik W Lund



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?40B4D4C2.5020900>