From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 6: 2:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home2.ecore.net (home2.ecore.net [212.63.128.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632B41547B for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 06:02:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sold@cheasy.de) Received: from kiste.cheasy.de [212.223.17.72] by home2.ecore.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.04) id A0E0A4D30340; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:02:24 +0200 Received: (from sold@localhost) by kiste.cheasy.de (8.9.2/8.9.2) id OAA05586; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 14:36:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sold) From: Christoph Sold Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 14:36:19 +0200 (CEST) To: "Nick LoPresti" Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Video formats on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <102321202@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14240.18790.994820.481249@kiste.cheasy.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nick LoPresti writes: > I posted a message earlier(Subject: .asf files) but no one replied. D= on't > worry guys, I understand. > My question sorta changed anyways... here goes: > Is there a way to play .asf files on FreeBSD? It is Micro$oft's strea= ming > video format(or something like that). I imagine you have to install > something and run it under X. I just can't seem to find this oh so > wonderful program. Thanks for the help guys. Since nobody answered yet, I guess there is nothing supporting this M$-private format. Following digital video closely, I never saw anything supporting this format but DOS-enhancers. Anyway, it won=B4t play under most Winblows boxes, too ;-) Seriously: There seems to be nothing compatible with Microsoft=B4s .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. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news... -Christoph Sold= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message