From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 24 11:14:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80EAD37B4C5 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 11:14:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 93862 invoked by uid 100); 24 Nov 2000 19:14:56 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14878.48687.841801.748670@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 13:14:55 -0600 (CST) To: Rajesh Saxena Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems playing mpegs in FreeBSD 4.2 Stable Newsgroups: mailing.freebsd.questions In-Reply-To: References: <8vl33c$2mi0$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rajesh Saxena 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.