mplayer nodeps

[cast-fish]

Hello

Just posting here about TCL 4.0.1

Uh. i have not had much luck with playing web streamed movies in TCL.

Granted the machine was old, but works perfect at the desired task
of movies as i have already experienced it...

anyhow, with tCL 4.0.1 i tried again for movies....and this is on a better
laptop.

Just with a default TCL boot and "mplayer nodeps" installed i was able
to watch perfect qaulity movies.

When you issue the player commands you use the argument of "-zoom"
followed by the movie web address of movie local file.

When the movie starts i maximaize the screen in the normal windows
way and then press the F key for  "fullscreen".

Sometimes the movie may need an extra agrument or two like  "-framedrop"
to help the video image flow....or other arguments like  "-cache 8192" or
"-nocache"

So typical command

$ mplayer -zoom http://www.themoviestream.avi

I think the info notes about "Mplayer nodeps" have an error.
The argument is "-zoom followed by the movie file...."...it's not "-zoom f followed by the movie file"
 OR am i reading it wrong?

Anyhow, it works fine here. IT's simple and quik install ....resulting in quik movie
watching with "mplayer no-deps" . It's still an 8 year old laptop...so.

I heard about  "Pirates of silicon valley" about Steve jobs...anybody seen it

thanks

V.

[hiro]

Yeah, you can change the wiki page, your observations are correct.

As this is tinycorelinux, not tinymacos I guess you should rather try to find out something about Dennis Ritchie, who also recently left this world.

[cast-fish]

Yes Hiro

yes sad news about Dennis Richie, which i saw about a month ago. Seems
he was the father of the unix era of computing....and the inventor of the C
computer programming language.

i will look at wiki

thanks then

V.