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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] mplayer and arts audio output
From:       Yves-Gwenael Bourhis <ybourhis () mandriva ! com>
Date:       2006-10-25 10:04:37
Message-ID: 200610251204.44799.ybourhis () mandriva ! com
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Le mercredi 25 octobre 2006 11:41, Tim Edwards a écrit :
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:04:34 +0200, "Laurent Montel"
>
> <lmontel@mandriva.com> said:
> > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 09:21, Götz Waschk wrote:
> > > Hi mplayer users,
> > >
> > > I thought about disabling arts support in the mplayer package, as it
> > > is responsible for crashes and is generally unstable. See for instance
> > > this bug:
> > > http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=25193
> > >
> > > Arts support also pulls in quite big packages like qt3 that aren't not
> > > needed on a non-KDE desktop.
> > >
> > > So does anybody have an opinion on this?
> >
> > if it doesn't break kmplayer which is default multimedia application for
> > mandriva...
>
> What about if your sound card doesn't have an OSS driver, eg. most new
> laptops? Will this break mplayer on those systems?

No, as those new laptops will have alsa drivers, and mplayer deals well with 
alsa.
arts is only for kde.
We will have to test this.
Götz, could you build a version without arts, and put it on main/testing on 
cooker?:
And we will then test if it doesn't break kmplayer as Laurent says.

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