Small light weight media player

[VoiDeR]

Im looking for a small light weight media player that i can recompile and use on my zaurus.
I have tried mplayer and xine but there to big. I prefer commandline only or a gui that has very few depends. The only codecs i need are mpg and avi. I have search for a few and nearly every posts says mplayer or xine but i know there are smaller ones out there that im not finding.

Thanks
VoiDeR

[cybertron]

Hmm, I'm not really aware of anything lighter than MPlayer (which doesn't mean it doesn't exist, mind you;)). Have you tried disabling options in the configure script? Looking through the ./configure --help output I see a lot of stuff that can be disabled if you just need basic file type support (note: mpg and avi are containers that can have a number of different codecs inside of them. Just FYI).

[VoiDeR]

I wasnt totaly sure what all i could disable so i pretty much left it stock execpt diableing gui and mencoder. Ill give it another go and see what i come up with.

[rocketpcguy]

try some smaller frontends
http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases

[cybertron]

As a start, I'd say you can use the following disable options:
--disable-qtx disable Quicktime codecs [autodetect]
--disable-xanim disable XAnim DLL support [autodetect]
--disable-real disable RealPlayer DLL support [autodetect]
--disable-xvid disable XviD codec [autodetect]
--disable-x264 disable H.264 encoder [autodetect]
--disable-divx4linux disable DivX4linux/Divx5linux codec [autodetect]
--disable-internal-tremor do not build internal OggVorbis support [enabled]
--disable-vorbis disable OggVorbis support entirely [autodetect]
--disable-speex disable Speex support [autodetect]
--disable-internal-matroska disable internal Matroska support [enabled]
--disable-internal-faad disable internal FAAD2 (AAC) support [autodetect]
--disable-faac disable support for FAAC (AAC encoder) [autodetect]
--disable-ladspa disable LADSPA plugin support [autodetect]
--disable-libdv disable libdv 0.9.5 en/decoding support [autodetect]

--disable-tga disable targa output support [enable]
--disable-pnm disable pnm output support [enable]
--disable-md5sum disable md5sum output support [enable]

Those should be reasonably safe, although if any of your files need them then you'll have to add some back in. You can also disable any audio output that you don't need, although I would think it would autodetect that. It probably depends on how/where you're building it. Whatever you do, don't disable any of the libavcodec/format stuff. As long as you leave those in you should be able to play a pretty wide range of files even after stripping out the extra stuff.

[frag79]

Do a google search for smpeg-gtv and avifile-player. If you have debian you can just apt-get them. They are both lightweight and I have been using them for years. I only have xine a s a backup for the few rare movies that they will not play.

[nikodell]

mpd http://www.musicpd.org/

[leonpmu]

Xmms perhaps?

[VoiDeR]

Thanks for the suggestions but in going to hold off till after the holidays. I bought my self a 1g sd card but i cant have it tilll after christmas.