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raymondcal

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Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 47

no gmplayer in mplayer package : WHY ???

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…

SS4

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From: !Rochford, Essex

Registered: 2010-12-05

Posts: 699

Re: no gmplayer in mplayer package : WHY ???

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

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jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: no gmplayer in mplayer package : WHY ???

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.

Closing

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litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: no gmplayer in mplayer package : WHY ???

Reopened by maintainer's request.

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: no gmplayer in mplayer package : WHY ???

@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)

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Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1,784

Re: no gmplayer in mplayer package : WHY ???

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.

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: no gmplayer in mplayer package : WHY ???

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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kurrata

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Registered: 2009-04-10

Posts: 8

Re: no gmplayer in mplayer package : WHY ???

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)