Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Re: mplayer binary

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Alex Bligh wrote:
> Alex Bligh wrote:
> > How is the mplayer binary meant to work on non-i386 systems, or
> > non-Linux systems? It seems to use wxMediaControl; will this use
> > an installed mplayer by default? What about (say) AMD64 where
> > running an i386 multimedia binary is probably not a great idea?
>
> Hit return too soon.
>
> For instance:
>
> bin/mplayer video/Part\ 1\ master\ inc\ audio\ smaller_q35_fr15_hi.ogm
> bin/mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: 
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> It works fine if I use the installed mplayer.
>
> Alex
The presence of mplayer can not be relied upon, so it was decided that 
it would be easier to ship a minimal version of mplayer. I did try using 
wxMediaControl, but it was totally unable to play the movies without 
stuttering so gave up on that.

I don't see running a multimedia binary on x86_64 as a particularly bad 
idea, as long as the operating system is correctly configured.
I suppose a solution would be to allow specification of the path to the 
mplayer application during configuration or even pull the application 
name from the mime info.

   Luke