DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: ogle and xpuyo- JOHN READ THIS!



i just downloaded a variant from dsl called puppy linux, and the only things that made it better than dsl were:

-xpuyopuyo: an amazingly fun game, much more fun than xpacman, and its tiny. i think it should replace xpacman http://chaos2.org/xpuyopuyo/ screenshot: http://chaos2.org/xpuyopuyo/screenshots/spheres.png

-ogle: a nice and also tiny dvd player! all other mini-distros have dvd, why not dsl? in the puppy version the guy made a script that economizes space by supprimating the gui, and autodetectiung and launching the dvd. you could try that from puppy linux. http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/

i think with those two things, dsl would be perfect.
Personally, I'd rather have mplayer than xmms, xine, ogle, ogg123, mpg123, etc.  And we probably would've gotten away with it too if it wasn't for W32Codecs and those darn meddling libs.  

Mplayer is HUGE, and yet I love it.  If busybox is a Swiss Army knife, then mplayer is a Ginsu.  You could use it to saw through a rear axle and then easily slice tomatoes.

However (comma) Mplayer will never be added due to its size, and I have a niggling little suspicion that ogle + ogle_gui + libs = too freakin big, but then again, what do I know, I vote Republican.
I agree about Xpuyopuyo, but I don't think ogle is necessary.
What about something almost like mplayer, but that could bee run like an install script or from a tar? Would it parhaps be necessary to "ctrl+alt+backspc" and restart X before running? I dont know, im just thinking loud.

Take care
/ Björn.
I've tried remastering DSL to include Mplayer (just to see if it could be done) and it can't be done.  Mplayer reguires libGl.so (openGl-libs) which is(are) part of the full XFree implementation.

I'm pretty sure Ogle shares many of the dependancies that Mplayer has, so I would assume it would be out as well.

I've done a little research into the matter to see if there's any other way to add DVD playback support to DSL and found a couple of promising plugins for xmms.  Sadly enough, they both rely on either Ogle or Mplayer, so we're back to square one.

This problem is primarily due to the limitations of the xvesa and framebuffer Xservers. However, due to many major distributions dropping future implementations of XFree, it's only a matter of time until xvesa&framebuffer are up to the task.
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