Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:43:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer + realaudio ... what to expect when installing ... Message-ID: <20040526143939.W682@goodwill.io.com> In-Reply-To: <20040526183433.GA12581@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20040526080914.55717.qmail@web21508.mail.yahoo.com> <40B4D4C2.5020900@broadpark.no> <20040526183433.GA12581@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Wed, 26 May 2004, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:32:50PM +0200, Henrik W Lund wrote: > > 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. > > Wrong. Mplayer depends on X if you define WITHOUT_GUI. > WITHOUT_GUI causes it not to have a GUI (available if mplayer is > invoked as gmplayer) and to not depend on GTK. mplayer -vo sgva works fine without X - whether you can build it without X, I don't know and I rather doubt. It makes a fine viewer for lynx, although you have to suid. Since it will no longer work with X if you suid it, I just copy and rename the binary which I suid. -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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