From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 31 17:48:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from meow.bsdlabs.com (meow.bsdlabs.com [66.123.5.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDB1A37B405; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:48:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (chern@localhost) by meow.bsdlabs.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fA11lrt62905; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:47:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chern@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: meow.bsdlabs.com: chern owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:47:53 -0800 (PST) From: Chern Lee X-X-Sender: To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: , Subject: Re: docs/31653: Chapter 14 of the Handbook lacks content In-Reply-To: <20011031203055.B40445@lpt.ens.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anything to cover this sort of multimedia under FreeBSD would be a great addition! The Handbook is an always in-progress document, and can be updated anytime in the future. Some documentation or even old documentation is always better than none. - chern On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > >Description: > > > > Chapter 14 "Sound" of the FreeBSD Handbook should really be a chapter > > on "Multimedia" and should contain information about playing DVDs with > > FreeBSD, playing popular animation formats (MPEG, QuickTime, Real), > > etc.. > > Actually, this is a rapidly moving target. Eg, support for playing > DVDs on FreeBSD has greatly improved in the last month (libdvdread > 0.9.x, ogle and mplayer 0.50 which support encrypted dvd playback > using libdvdread, and xine with libdvdcss support, have all shown up > in the last 2-3 weeks) and one expects it will continue to move fast. > > Again, the best general-purpose players for animation (mpeg, avi, etc) > seem to be mplayer and xine, and both are moving fast (xine just added > asf support in their last release, while mplayer just jumped from > version 0.18 to 0.50 with major improvements). Quicktime is, of > course, unsupported, except for some rather old files which don't use > the Sorensen codec. For Real one just has to use Real's player, in > the ports; this is probably the only stable target here. > > I could have a shot at writing something, but it will probably get > outdated rather quickly. > > - Rahul > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message