From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 6:41:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1502537B503 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 06:41:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA19863 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:41:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA20266 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:41:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G1WRD000.LOV; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:41:24 -0400 Message-ID: <39DB337F.42DF1BD3@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 09:41:19 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Windows Media Player References: <20001003185202.A60304@freebsd.mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David J. Kanter" wrote: > > Some stations only broadcast in Windows Media Player format. Is there any > way to use FreeBSD to play this format? > > I installed wine and tried running WMP, but it really doesn't work. > RealPlayer 7 in the ports collection (for Linux) doesn't play that format, > either. > > Any ideas? Well, Window Media Player can play all sorts of different formats, it is difficult to tell exactly which one you need. A good place to start would be avifile in the graphics section of the ports, I have been able to play some .asf files (although the program is alpha quality and displays a huge amount of debugging data). I don't know if there is a way to stream the data into avifile, but you might be able to download the broadcast and play it from you HD. Be warned that .asf and some flavors of .avi (DIVX for example) are exceptionally processer intensive. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message