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Date:      Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:06:24 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved@gmail.com>
Cc:        Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Command line video player
Message-ID:  <20090221120550.T58502@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <c1e7523f0902210042l51c111ffy8e6af25fb6b31f7e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <c1e7523f0902210042l51c111ffy8e6af25fb6b31f7e@mail.gmail.com>

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>    I am setting up a P1 90MHz machine for some light multimedia
> playback for a friend. As of now, it is running on FreeBSD 5.5. We
> have been able to play mp3's using mpd and it's doing well till now.
> Next, I am looking for a video player. But, I have following problems
> while proceeding :
> 1) Would the machine be able to handle any kind of videos

only low res.

> 2) I am not able to find mplayer for 5.5 so I tried to get it's
> package from 5-RELEASE, which lists lots of dependancies. How do I get
> mplayer package for 5.5

install FreeBSD 7

> 3) Is there any other video player with lesser dependencies since the
> machine has just 4GB HDD.

still should be no problem to compile it even on 1GB HDD



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