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Experimental Mplayer build from SVN (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 06.09.2010, 22:34

> > Since he's using DJGPP 2.04 beta to compile,
> > it has the 4 GB patches (according to CWS)
>
> of what ???
2.04 has better FAT32/4GB support, in theory, not sure if it was ever tested well or not.

> > I've never tried it. AFAICT, you need a suitable OS (MS-DOS 7 ???)
>
> WtF ??? :crying:
You know I don't have the inclination (or setup) to test everything! But yeah, forgot about EDR-DOS.

> > At one time Eric Auer said it was "fairly trivial" to maybe?
> > fix, but he never publicly hacked on it.
>
> Because last time I discussed this thing with him his attitude was "there
> is no 2-GiB-problem in FreeDOS" , "there is no need for files > 2 GiB (or 2
> GB ???) in DOS
> or FreeDOS" and "use Linux".

Yes, but he also somewhat recanted and said it should be reasonably possible. But he may have waited for approval or help from Bart or Jeremy, who knows.

> Another "interesting" point of him: "there is
> no need for a sound driver model for DOS or FreeDOS"
I think at best he just wanted a linkable library extracted from Mpxplay (if that's even possible).

> and "there is no need to support
> PCI sound hardware in DOS" and "you can't add this to DOS because there is
> no such thing in DOS" and finally "all sound cards are excellently
> supported and emulated with DOS-EMU" :-(
He likes DOSEMU, and let's face it, it works! The borg have assimilated us, we can't run. :-( We have to accept other OSes and emulators, they aren't going anywhere. Best of a bad situation ....

> Also the 2039 kernel still has this unfixed regression ...
Yeah, very few volunteers, sad.

> > Hope that helps explain it somehow, but I doubt it
> > 2010: the year of the DOS desktop
>
> This says all ...
It does? All it says is that, "Well, here's my lame, crappy answer in lieu of somebody more experienced."

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