From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 10 2:40:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D766514C80 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 02:40:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@dookie.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.138.232] (helo=dookie.demon.co.uk) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10VuDL-0005um-0A; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 09:38:12 +0000 Received: by dookie.demon.co.uk via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for nrahlstr@winternet.com; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:40:22 +0100 (BST) Content-Length: 1196 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199904100340.WAA72429@nospam.hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:40:21 +0100 (BST) Organization: Jon's Place From: Jonathan Belson To: David Kelly Subject: Re: viewing .AVI files? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Nathan Ahlstrom Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Apr-99 David Kelly wrote: > 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 Intel are very possessive when it comes to their AVI codecs. AIUI they let Mark have the necessary files under NDA, but he can only release the decoder in object format. This is explained in the documentation. So, you can either remake the binary with the necessary object file or try a Linux binary. C-YA Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message