From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 9 20:42:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C64152CC for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:42:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-14-172.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.14.172]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA30427; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 22:40:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (nospam.hiwaay.net [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA72429; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 22:40:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199904100340.WAA72429@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Nathan Ahlstrom Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: viewing .AVI files? In-reply-to: Message from Nathan Ahlstrom of "Fri, 09 Apr 1999 21:04:07 CDT." <19990409210407.A4333@winternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 22:40:29 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nathan Ahlstrom writes: > David Kelly wrote: > > Somebody sent me an .AVI file. First search thru /usr/ports failed to > > locate something to view it. > > > > % cd /usr/ports > > % find . -name DESC -exec grep -il avi "{}" \; > > > > This found too many things, incorrectly: > > % make search key=avi > > > > Any way to view such a file on FreeBSD? > > You might try Xanim. /usr/ports/graphics/xanim. Well, it was worth a try: nospam: {1139} xanim *.avi & [4] 72396 nospam: {1140} XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C) 1991-1999. All Rights Reserved AVI Video Codec: Intel Indeo R3.2 is unsupported by this executable.(E18) Please see the file "indeo.readme". AVI Notice: No supported Video frames - treating as audio only file [4] Done xanim *.avi nospam: {1140} -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message