[MPlayer-users] Building MPlayer and XMMS

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Vladimir Mosgalin <mosgalin <at> VM10124.spb.edu> writes:

> Mplayer has a reason to link with so many libraries

Yes, historical reasons;-)
(and, as said, MEncoder dependencies)

The only thing you need is *either* xv *or* OpenGl 
for video and an audio library, I would strongly 
advise not to use pulse but your mileage may vary.

Carl Eugen