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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:06:11 +0100
From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch>
To: John Van Sickle <john.vansickle@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: MPlayer with Real Audio/Video, linux_base not needed
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:38:49AM -0500, John Van Sickle wrote:
> 
>   I wrote a guide on installing a mplayer cvs snapshot with the latest
> codec support including Real Audio/Video support without needing
> linux_base and linux-realplayer. It also has security fixes that were
> announced on Dec. 15 (you can read about them at www.mplayerhq.hu). 
> I'm hoping some people on this list will test this and if all goes
> well we could drop the need for linux_base'd Real A/V support in
> /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer. Because a port that doesn't depend on
> linux is a happy port :)  Look forward to your feedback.
> 
> http://bsduser.net/mplayer.html

kickass! now that someone did this, i really have to have a look again
at the native flash versions that are available... :-)

thanks a lot for that howto,

greets, t.