From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 0:56:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17B6437B405 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:56:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:46:03 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Oliver Fromme Subject: Re: recommendations for mpg avi viewer requested Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:45:55 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <200201070207.g0727KS26648@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200201070207.g0727KS26648@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <08b200346030a12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG BTW, mplayer 0.60 is out and it supoprts Qucktime *and* realvideo. I'll be checking it out shortly but it should definately be worth a look. On Sunday 06 January 2002 09:07 pm, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > > The only two things it doesn't do that I've noticed are quicktime (xanim > > is still the only player I know of that does) and real video (only > > realplayer). > > Yep. Even worse: Most of the better-quality QuickTimes use > non-open codecs (such as Sorenson), so you have to boot into > Windows. :( > > While real video is non-open and proprietary, too, there is > at least a player that runs under FreeBSD without problems, > although it doesn't seem to support any hardware acceleration. > > > On the other hand, it's a little bit of a pain in some ways: the GUI is > > pretty lame: some of the controls don't work and there's no position > > thumb or running time > > I don't use the GUI at all, only the hotkeys. For example, > the cursor keys for rewind and fast forward, space for stop > and start etc., you can also press "o" to enable or disable > the OSD (includes running time). I think this is more > convenient than using a GUI. > > YMMV, of course. > > > (for plain-old MPEGS, mtv is a lot nicer); > > Nope, it doesn't support scaling / acceleration (at least > not last time I tried it), so I can't use it to play MPEGs > fullscreen. The free command-line player (mtvp) doesn't > even let you pause or jump forward or backward. > > > also, if it can't > > play the vids with your options, it just fails; for instance, I normally > > use xy 2 (2x scale), and perhaps as a result it defaults to -vo xv > > (X11/xv scaling), but some videos for some reason it can't decode that > > way, so it just fails. > > Yep, that's somewhat annoying. > > By default, it tries the Xvideo extension (-vo xv), because > this is the most efficient. However, Xvideo doesn't support > all of the possible color space conversions. If the codec > requires one that is not supported, it just fails. > > If the user didn't specify any output driver using -vo, it > would be better to automatically fallback to -vo sdl or (if > the SDL library fails, too) to -vo x11. > > I made a dirty hack in a shell script: It just checks the > CPU time that the mplayer call took. If it was less than > one second, it assumes that -vo xv failed and retries with > -vo sdl. Yep, this is incredibly ugly, but worked so far. > > Actually we should submit a problem report to the author of > mplayer to get this fixed. I don't think it would be very > difficult for him to fix it. > > There's another bug: When you pause playback, the CPU > usage goes to 100% for no apparent reason. There must be > some busy-waiting loop in the code. I notice that because > the noisy fan of my notebook starts spinning when I pause > playback, which is annoying. It never spins during normal > playback. > > Regards > Oliver -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message