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Why the hell is the gui gmplayer no longer included in the mplayer package ???
Who decided such a silly thing, and why… Only to make Arch more and more elitist ?
That is not serious, really not.
Or did I miss something ? A malware in the GUI, or something like that…
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Arch is minimalist, by not including gmplayer it reduces dependencies and it can always be added in using ABS anyway.
I can't see many KDE users preferring gmplayer to smplayer and no gui means you can add your own frontend
Rauchen verboten
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It's to give people the choice.
And please, if you want to question the developer's decision - do so respectfully: ranting does you no credit and is not appreciated on the boards.
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Reopened by maintainer's request.
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@raymondcal to not let this subject untouched.
the decision to disable the gtk frontend is:
1) upstream mplayer developers said that because is not maintained
2) is not enabled by default at all even when gtk2 is present
3) i tried to comply with the upstream decision. Do not enable stuff unless are autodetected, do not modify CFLAGS/LDFLAGS
4) other frontends like smplayer/gnome-mplayer/kmplayer are way better than the one provided by mplayer.
As you see the reasons are not silly at all. I suggest to try smplayer frontend because is really great
btw, welcomed in 2011. gmplayer was dropped almost 2 years ago.
Last edited by wonder (2011-01-18 22:08:56)
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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btw, welcomed in 2011. gmplayer was dropped almost 2 years ago.
That's what really made me wonder Seems like there are Arch users out there who don't update that often.
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I am a kde user and I prefer gmplayer to smplayer every time! Here's my PKGBUILD which I've been using to rebuild mplayer for the past 2 years in order to get gmplayer:
# $Id$
# Maintainer: Hugo Doria <hugo@archlinux.org>
pkgname=mplayer
pkgver=32792
pkgrel=3
pkgdesc="A movie player for linux"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
depends=('libxxf86dga' 'libxv' 'libmad' 'giflib' 'cdparanoia'
'sdl' 'lame' 'libtheora' 'xvidcore' 'zlib' 'libmng' 'libxss'
'libgl' 'smbclient' 'aalib' 'jack-audio-connection-kit' 'libcaca'
'x264>=20090416' 'faac' 'lirc-utils' 'ttf-dejavu' 'libxvmc' 'libjpeg>=7')
license=('GPL')
url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/"
makedepends=('unzip' 'live-media' 'libdca' 'mesa')
backup=('etc/mplayer/codecs.conf' 'etc/mplayer/input.conf')
source=(ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.xz http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/Blue-1.7.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('a48845de4b410ab7799ee87a038dd58e' 'e4e2020d11b681aac898103b3ba723c4')
build() {
# Custom CFLAGS break the mplayer build
unset CFLAGS
cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-runtime-cpudetection --enable-gui --disable-arts \
--confdir=/etc/mplayer --disable-liblzo --disable-speex \
--disable-openal --disable-fribidi --disable-libdv --disable-musepack \
--language=all --disable-esd --enable-alsa --enable-vdpau --disable-mga --extra-cflags="-I/usr/lib/live-media" || return 1
[ "$CARCH" = "i686" ] && sed 's|-march=i486|-march=i686|g' -i config.mak
make || return 1
make -j1 DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install || return 1
install -Dm644 etc/{codecs.conf,input.conf,example.conf} ${pkgdir}/etc/mplayer/ || return 1
install -dm755 ${pkgdir}/usr/share/mplayer/
ln -s /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf ${pkgdir}/usr/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf || return 1
rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/share/mplayer/font
mv ${srcdir}/Blue ${pkgdir}/usr/share/mplayer/skins/default
}
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Pleasure your torture, I will endure...
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well i am using mplayer with no gui so i am quite happy with this change
Last edited by kurrata (2011-01-20 23:19:07)
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