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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:27:23 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
To:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any good mpeg, mpg, avi, general media players (movies)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010271313170.6356-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber>
In-Reply-To: <F18za2CNNw9ae0A5Xwf00002923@hotmail.com>

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Hi,

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, That Guy wrote:

> You guys have any ideas about good media players?  I don't particularly like 
> real, of course I didn't spend much time on configuration.  I like mpegtv if 
> they wouldn't have made that ass-beating registration bullshit.  Anybody 
> have any ideas about good ones?

This is a very interesting question of very big general interest, as far
as "general media players" are concerned. The problem behind is if we
should use audio/x-mpegurl aka m3u for streaming *video*, or if this MIME
type should be reserved for *audio*, where it came from (www.mp3.com and
others.) I made something about this at http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/
where I suggest a new MIME type for MPEG video, video/x-mpegurl aka mgu.

There are a lot of arguments against using m3u filelists for video. IMHO
in practice, using m3u for video, it is possible today with the MS Media
player, is more complicated than using a new MIME type. If you use m3u for
video you have to create a bunch of new software, filtering the audiofiles
out, to give the URL to the MPEG Video player and so on. And you cant use
Realplayer anymore for mp3s, as this beast doesnt like MPEG video...
Well, the latter might be a Windoze problem and one solution would be that
Real supports MPEG Video too, which would be an end of their "internet
content monopoly", but from an average Unix users point of view, I am
happy with mpg123 for audio and mtvp for video and all I need for
streaming MPEG Video is this little shellscript, see URL, faq.

More bandwidth ;-)

H.



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