From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 21:52:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7D516A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:52:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (mproxy.gmail.com [216.239.56.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14A1543D1F for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:52:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cjalmond@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x17so417579cwb for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.81.1 with SMTP id e1mr19093rnb; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <92b67e1b04062914527a5ccdc0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:52:31 -0500 From: Curtis Almond To: krinklyfig@spymac.com In-Reply-To: <200406282338.05068.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200406282338.05068.krinklyfig@spymac.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Audio/multimedia recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:52:51 -0000 I have tried the following on earlier version of BSD. I had a specific need for MP3 jukebox features. Juk with KDE Net-Rhythm Jukebox (currently broken) Juk was functional and did a good job at organizing my small mp3 collection. Curtis On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:38:05 -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > > OK, so I've finally moved over to FreeBSD from Linux, and I've fallen in love. > To me, this OS makes so much more /sense/ than Linux, though I'm not > evangelizing nor knocking anyone's choices. I realize the strength of the > FreeBSD is on the server side, but I like it enough that I'm planning on > using this current install as a workstation (and later I plan on using a > combined FreeBSD/OpenBSD setup for a mail/web server network, OpenBSD being > dedicated to firewalling). My stats are FreeBSD 5.2.1 RELEASE, KDE 3.2.3 (I > also have Gnome but don't use it often). After toying around a bit with the > various installed media players as well as installing XMMS (which has some > quirky problems with KDE), I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations on > media players, as this ain't cutting it and there are so many audio and > multimedia ports that it's a rather daunting task trying to pick any of them. > My previous Linux experience didn't involve much media, so I'm not familiar > with what's popular or what works well. I'm particularly interested in any > players which support streaming media, especially standards like Real and > WMP. I tried going to the Real page to dl their player, after discovering > it's no longer in ports, and there is no option for FreeBSD, and the Linux > player is a binary - haven't tried it yet. > > Also, my mobo is an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe with an ATI Radeon 9600 XT video card. > The mobo works fine with FreeBSD, but I haven't been able to get my video > card to work, even though I've been through a number of steps advised on > different sites, including building AGP into the kernel and Radeon support > into XFree86. I've also searched through the list archives, but the answers > given tend to vary, and the ones I've tried haven't worked. I know many > people have asked about this issue, but I have yet to find a solution which > works. Anyone have an answer they know works? I'm not all that interested in > playing games on this machine or using 3D much at all, but it would be nice > to speed up my system by actually using the video memory the card uses. > > - jt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >