I have found it rather funny that in a world of increasing hard drive sizes, 
we are still working at making our storage footprint smaller. 
I could understand a little with the memory footprint, but I don't understand 
the storage foot print. Unless your intentions for a small distro is to "fit on 
the cd" rather take up a lot of hard drive space.

Regardless, 

(DVD/video player/ripper, audio/CD player/ripper, etc.)
I would have to request:
mplayer for DVD/video player
dvdbackup for dvd ripper
cdda2wav for audio/cd player/ripper along with mplayer to play the ripped 
files. I realize mplayer has a lot of deps, but you get everything in the end. 
And it is far faster than xine.
Or even aplay works well.

Nathan

On Sunday, December 04, 2011 00:26:14 Jason Hsu wrote:
> What are your favorite multimedia apps (DVD/video player/ripper, audio/CD
> player/ripper, etc.) that are lightweight?  I don't have any particular
> favorites, but that's because I don't use the multimedia apps that often,
> and I generally find all of the most popular apps acceptable to me.  I'm
> trying to decide what to remove from Linux Mint Debian Edition and what to
> add in order to create Swift Linux.
> 
> I've noticed that Linux distros tend to offer redundancy in their selection
> of multimedia apps.  Even Puppy Linux and antiX Linux offer redundant
> multimedia apps.  In Swift Linux, every MB counts.  Not only am I trying to
> shrink the 1.1 GB ISO file of LMDE with GNOME to under 700 MB so it fits
> onto a CD, I want Swift Linux to continue to fit onto a CD for years to
> come.  Thus, I need apps that are reasonably lightweight and have few or no
> dependencies.
> 
> What do you think of XMMS?  It's the ONLY multimedia player included with
> Damn Small Linux.  ConnochaetOS comes with only GNOMEPlayer, SimpleBurn,
> and GTK Sound Mixer.
> 
> I'd especially like to hear from those of you who also use lightweight
> distros.  In addition to the lightweight distros I've mentioned here, what
> others should I try?  A solution that works for other lightweight distros
> could work for Swift Linux.