Building MPlayer 1.0-pre6a under YDL-4.0 [LONG]

[Eric Dunbar]

> under YDL-4.0. The build required fixing some include files, which will
> be discussed below.  I "tested" MPlayer using an mp4 file containing the
> movie trailer for "Jurassic  Park". Both the sound and the video
> "worked" as did the controls for the player.  Beyond running an mp4
> file, I have not tested any of its other capabilities. Hopefully others
> on the list who have access to files in the various supported formats
> will exercise the application.

> CODECS:
> MPlayer comes with quite an assortment of CODECS that run on a PPC.
> There are others that are Intel specific that are not available for PPC.
> 
> The MPlayer web page provides some pointers to additional codecs. One
> set that might be of interest are the  codecs for RealPlayer.  The
> MPlayer web site offers the codecs for RealPlayer8 for linux PPC.  The
> codecs for RealPlayer10 can be copied from the RealPlayer10 for linux
> PPC from the Helix Community.
> 
>         https://helixcommunity.org/

At the risk of asking a dumb question...

Is it possible to play Windows Media format files on PPC?

Eric.