[Mplayer-dev-eng] MPlayer + FreeBSD - works great!

[Vladimir Kushnir]

Hello,

Forst of all - thanks a lot for an mplayer - THE DivX player for *NIX as
far as I'm concerned.

Next, there is (fortunately :-) a small nit in MPlayer-FAQ:
"Q: I'd like to use/port MPlayer on/to my <insert your favourite
architecture
   here> on <insert your favourite OS here> . Is it possible?
A: No.

Q: But...!
A: No."

It's not quite so. I've patched it a little bit and it works (within its
capabilities) just great under my FreeBSD (both -CURRENT and -STABLE, and
4.2 before) just great. More, this is the only chance for those poor souls
like myself running FreeBSD on a computer with not so strong CPU (here it's
P-III Katmai 450 MHz) and nVidia videocard (VANTA with 32 MB here) to
watch DivX movies. Aviplay is not an option here - it drops up to 90%
frames :-(

Of course, there're limitations - no fbdev and svga drivers, I didn't
touch DVD part (haven't got one, so why bother? :-), old style VCDs not
finished (are there many of them still existing?). But as far as AVI,
MPEG1, DivX are concerned - mplayer works here under FreeBSD even BETTER
than under Linux on this very computer (RH 7.1 + nVidia drivers here)!!!

If anybody is interested I could finish it up and send patches.

Regards (and thanks again),
Vladimir







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