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Date:      Fri, 24 Nov 2000 13:14:55 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Rajesh Saxena <bluehaze@sympatico.ca>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems playing mpegs in FreeBSD 4.2 Stable
Message-ID:  <14878.48687.841801.748670@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011241331530.10487-100000@purple.haze>
References:  <8vl33c$2mi0$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011241331530.10487-100000@purple.haze>

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Rajesh Saxena <bluehaze@sympatico.ca> types:
> > Are you running the same binaries you were running on 4.1-RELEASE? If
> > so, did you try upgrading to the 4.2-RELEASE versions of them? No
> > guarantees, but that may fix the problem. It wouldn't hurt in any
> > case.
> I was using the same binaries initially but when I read your message I did
> make deinstall && make clean for sdl-devel-1.1.6, sdl-1.0.8_1, smpeg-0.4.0
> and Mesa-3.2.1_1 and then reinstalled all of those ports but still no
> luck. I don't really know what the problem is because most of the time gtv
> won't even give me an error message, just doesn't load the files and then
> i have to kill -9 pid. I've tried xanim but that seems to skip a lot of
> frames for some reason. Mind you.. it isn't my hardware(atleast I don't
> think it is)since Realplayer has no problems playing video files. Is there
> any other media player I can use for mpg's & avi's?  

Please keep your replies on the -questions list. Others may be
interested in knowing how well the answer works - or didn't.

Two things you might try:

1) plaympeg (it's part of the smpeg package as well), which should
   give you better error messages.

2) Get the SDL-1.1.4 from the web site, and try to install it. The sdl
   development port *is* for development, and tends to break. I know
   sdl-devel-1.1.5 was broken; 1.1.6 may also be broken. Unfortunately,
   nobody has bothered to update the sdl port to anything more recent
   than 1.0.8, which smpeg can't use.

	<mike



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