From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 10:14:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ezln23.earthbroadcasting.com (ezln23.thedial.com [207.135.131.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37DE155F5 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:14:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@thedial.com) Received: from thedial.com (localhost.earthbroadcasting.com [127.0.0.1]) by ezln23.earthbroadcasting.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00407; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:12:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from chris@thedial.com) Message-ID: <37A08B79.25F79E56@thedial.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:12:25 -0600 From: Christopher Taylor X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video formats on FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Since nobody answered yet, I guess there is nothing supporting this > > > M$-private format. Following digital video closely, I never saw > > > anything supporting this format but DOS-enhancers. Anyway, it won´t > > > play under most Winblows boxes, too ;-) > > > > > > Seriously: There seems to be nothing compatible with Microsoft´s .asf > > > format. IMHO, this was done intentionally. OTOH, to get any streaming > > > format working, you have to use one of a few known compression > > > methods, only the compression parameters vary. So if you can get hold > > > of the format, it would be relatively easy to adapt existing video > > > decompressors. > > > > The closest you're going to get is the Windows Media Player under > > 'wine'. Keep track of Linux though...who knows when someone will hack a > > player for the Linux platform... > > Does the windows media player even work under wine? It runs under wine, but I wasn't able to get the sound to play...I haven't tried it with video. Also, there is a FreeBSD port of the old NetShow player... --Chris -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christopher Taylor Technical Director Earth Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) 415 East 200 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 phone: (801) 322-3949 cell: (801) 541-8287 email: chris@thedial.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message