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woverin

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Posted: May 03 2004,16:23

DSL is getting better and better. I guess DSL is still missing video player.
Mplayer is a nice DVD,VCD,mpg player.
Is it too big for DSL ?
Another suggestion is you can save some space by removing unused fluxbox theme. I believe that default DSL theme is good enough. So, there is no need to redundancy themes. You may put it as an optional download.

dslfool

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Posted: May 04 2004,04:08

Looks like mplayer is too big, per this thread.

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Posted: May 06 2004,04:59

FYI,

mplayer is about 2MB (dynamically linked and stripped) but it's ALL the codecs that take up >13MB. Perhaps only picking out a few, like MPEG 1, 2, and 4, and... ?

MoviX does it in about 5MB, maybe that's a good starting point?

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woverin

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Posted: May 06 2004,14:32

yes i'm strongly agree with you ,KnightFire.
We can choose to install only some codecs like MPG,Divx.
But my linux experience is limited. Can some linux guru write a small script like Firefox download?
Any help would be appreciated.

PhrozenFear Offline

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Posted: May 11 2004,00:39

Actually, that's a very good idea - if you get and install MPlayer with the few codecs you want (WMV, MPEG, AVI, DVD, DivX, and maybe MP3, you'll be set. I should do some checking on that, and see what I can come up with. Then again, my machine right now is deader than dead - I'm just LiveCD'ing it for now.

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