Re: mplayer (was: Save As - how do I save html ...)

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt yahoo com>]

On 2002-01-01, Craig White wrote:

>I have little interest in running wine at this point - it is after, not
>another windows, but with respect to Windows Media Player, and in fact,
>multi-media on linux, is anyone here using mplayer?
>
><http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/>
>
>the thing that got me was the reliance upon compiling from source and
>their insistence that it not be distributed in binary format AND gcc
>2.96 was insufficient, requiring a version 3.xx
>
>So - has anyone gotten this to run on an enigma based system and on the
>scale of 1 - 10, how difficult was it?

1 - easy

I have 0.50 running here, but am not using it often. To compile it
I've followed the docs, used the --disable-gcc-checking argument and
entered "gcc 2.96 is broken" at the prompt.