[MPlayer-users] Question about deleting external libraries dependencies

[John Brown]

On Wed, December 29, 2010 4:20:20 AM GMT - 5, Zongyao QU wrote:



> We built  mplayer with dependencies on external libraries before, 
> but now we want to trim the size of the files as much as possible.
> We thought  there may be some codecs duplicated with ffmpeg, 
> so delete the external libraries are the best way AFAIK.

> The libraries are 

> libdca
> libfaac
> libfaad2
> libfontconfig
> libfreetype
> libogg
> libspeex
> libtheora
> libvorbis

> But losing functionalities is unacceptable.

> So the question is which of these libraries could be excluded,
> and the decoding abilities could be 
> substituted by ffmpeg?

> Thank you very much

Hello Zongyao,

Fontconfig and freetype have nothing to do with encoding or decoding. MPlayer
will work without them, but you will not have On Screen Display or subtitles.

The documentation at ffmpeg.org includes a list of supported video and audio
codecs and container file formats.

Regards,
Alias John Brown.