From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com HELO [192.168.100.25]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.10) with ESMTPSA id 9213601 for cwmm-dev@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 17 Feb 2024 20:44:17 -0500 Subject: Re: [cwmm-dev] CWMM testing so far with SMplayer and mplayer combined... To: CWMM Developers Mailing List References: Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Message-ID: <65D160ED.9090700@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 20:44:13 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 SeaMonkey/2.35 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/17/24 08:30 pm, Roderick Klein wrote: > Hello, > > Been testing for a few hours and so far this seems to work pretty well. It > works as it says on tin. What is really great is that older video's not > supported by mplayer are played by MMOS/2. In this case an MP4 file > automatically gets an AVI icon and by putting MPLAYER and SMPLAYER in the > path MP4 opens and plays in a UI. > > Will do more testing with converting files (JPG to PCX etc). > And playing audio files. > > The question is how can we distribute MPLAYER and SMPLAYER with ArcaOS. > From my perspective this is not possible because off the landmine with > software patents related to audio and video codecs. > SMPlayer works with QT 4. > > OS/2 VOICE could include an RPM in rpm.os2voice.org for SMPLAYER and > MPLAYER. But how can we make it EXTREMELY easy to install this in ArcaOS. > A link in readme file would not be sufficient from my perspective. Any > idea's. > AIUI, neither SMPlayer nor MPlayer is problematic to distribute, only some of the codecs. Why not: 1. Split the codecs out into their own package. 2. Create an object in the Multimedia folder for a script to: 1. add and enable the OS2VOICE repository to ANPM (prompting for credentials to be added to the configuration); and upon successful addition, 2. launch ANPM to retrieve the codecs package and install it[1] If we did not want to distribute SMPlayer and MPlayer packages with ArcaOS, we could simply add them to the list of packages to be retrieved. --- 1. I have advocated for some time adding command line options to ANPM to semi-automate various things (see AN ticket 2493 as an example). The ability to create a new repository definition - including credentials - would be another set of command line options. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE, CWTS, EA Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------