Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:12:25 -0600 From: Christopher Taylor <chris@thedial.com> To: Chris <chrismar@shasta.eclipse.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video formats on FreeBSD Message-ID: <37A08B79.25F79E56@thedial.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907291158590.48606-100000@shasta.eclipse.net>
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> > > 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
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