From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 16: 6: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.nc.rr.com (fe4.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F06CA37B417 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:06:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([66.57.85.154]) by mail4.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:58:30 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, daverk@epix.net, Oliver Fromme Subject: Re: recommendations for mpg avi viewer requested Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:57:45 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <200201062133.g06LXDC13322@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200201062133.g06LXDC13322@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <0b6763058220612FE4@mail4.nc.rr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 06 January 2002 04:33 pm, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Dave Kaufman 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 -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message