Media player

Forum: Apps
Topic: Media player
started by: brigzzy

Posted by brigzzy on Dec. 19 2005,20:26

I'm looking for a movie player to run on DSL. Can anyone suggest one? XMMS won't play movies (I'm not too sure if it's even supposted to), and I'm running out of ideas... cna anyone suggest one?

(Note: I'm running a 133 Mhz processor, with 32 megs of RAM, if that matters)

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 19 2005,23:11

mplayer or xine extensions from the mydsl repository are options, although both will be difficult to use with only 32MB of RAM.

My choice would be to install a DOS swapfile or a Linux swap partition of 64MB and then use mplayer

If mplayer didn't work, try xine

Posted by brigzzy on Dec. 20 2005,20:12

OK, one more question... (This is slightly off topic) How does one compile it? Sorry, I'm a bit of a linux noob...

Posted by mikshaw on Dec. 20 2005,20:36

No compiling necessary, the mydsl packages are either compiled specifically for DSL or taken directly from other pre-compiled packages such as debian packages.
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MyDSL_Extensions >

Posted by Brigzzy on Dec. 20 2005,20:43

That's all good, but DSL is on my lappy, and I don't have a NIC. I'm using a 128 meg Jumpdrive to get stuff back and forth... slow, but it works... Is it matbe possible to get the extention files, and download them on another computer, and jumpdrive them like that?

Posted by Your Fuzzy God on Dec. 20 2005,21:01

Sure! Download the .dsl file that you want from < The DSL Repository > to your pen drive. Then you can put the .dsl files on your laptop. To install the program just double click the *.dsl file. To run the program right click on the desktop and look under MyDSL. You program should be there!

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 21 2005,04:43

In other words,

Plug the pendrive in and boot DSL.

Then open the emelfm file manager and go to the /mnt directory.

You should see a mountpoint like "sda1" or "sdb1". Highlight it and then Right-Click and choose "Mount" from the menu.

Then highlight your filename.dsl file and then push the MYDSL button inside the emelfm window.

Then Right-Click on any empty part of the desktop and choose the newly installed program from the mydsl menu section.

Posted by brigzzy on Dec. 22 2005,03:25

Excelent!! Just tried it, nad it worked beautifuly. Props to everyone for helping! Thanks a lot!

Posted by Brigzzy on Dec. 22 2005,23:03

One more thing... Is there any way to install an app without being logged in as DSL? I can't install as the user I made (Brigzzy), or even as root... is there a file I need to edit to change the default user, or is there no way around it?

Posted by mikshaw on Dec. 23 2005,03:25

As far as myDSL extensions go, you need to be dsl....there's no way around it unless you feel like re-writing the mydsl scripts. For most packages this should not present a problem for other users actually running the programs, but they just don't have an available desktop icon or menu item from which to launch the program. These things can be copied from /home/dsl if needed.

There are many issues involved with this behavior. I'm pretty sure it *could* be rebuilt to accomodate installation by other users, but my guess is that the work needed to do this is heavy enough that other more important needs are being considered a much greater priority.