Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:57:45 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, daverk@epix.net, Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> Subject: Re: recommendations for mpg avi viewer requested Message-ID: <0b6763058220612FE4@mail4.nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200201062133.g06LXDC13322@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200201062133.g06LXDC13322@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Sunday 06 January 2002 04:33 pm, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Dave Kaufman <daverk@epix.net> wrote:
> > hi, looking for a good mpg avi viewer. am running 4.4-RELEASE with
> > Xfree86 3.whatever (last before 4.x had problems running 4.x so...)
>
> mplayer (it's in the ports collection).
> Plays MPEGs, AVIs (including DivX), AFS, VideoCD, DVD, ...
The only two things it doesn't do that I've noticed are quicktime (xanim is
still the only player I know of that does) and real video (only realplayer).
On the other hand, it's a little bit of a pain in some ways: the GUI is
pretty lame: some of the controls don't work and there's no position thumb or
running time (for plain-old MPEGS, mtv is a lot nicer); also, if it can't
play the vids with your options, it just fails; for instance, I normally use
xy 2 (2x scale), and perhaps as a result it defaults to -vo xv (X11/xv
scaling), but some videos for some reason it can't decode that way, so it
just fails. I'd prefer that it just told me i can't scale 2x for the video
and dropped to -vo x11 on its own, but it won't do that, which means that I
have to recall & re-ask -- this would be ok except that I usually am trying
to bring up animations deep inside a script someplace and the scripts doesn't
know that it failed . . . . I guess I could parse stderr, but *what* a pain.
>
> It even uses hardware scaling (either through the SDL lib
> or through the Xvideo extension), so you can view fullscreen
> with moderate CPU requirements. Provided that the scaling
> acceleration is supported with your graphics card, of course.
>
> Regards
> Oliver
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