From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun May 17 10:45:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17799 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 10:45:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xcf.berkeley.edu (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA17788 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 10:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU) From: grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Message-Id: <199805171744.KAA17788@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 22016 invoked from network); 17 May 1998 17:46:14 -0000 Received: from localhost.berkeley.edu (HELO scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.berkeley.edu with SMTP; 17 May 1998 17:46:14 -0000 To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: questions about developing an mpeg3 database and interface MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <22009.895427165.1@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 10:46:05 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Inspired by the 8hz mpeg3 encoder, I've started encoding my CDs. Ultimately, it would be cool to have all the CDs on file, with a database describing them, and a GUI to choose by title, style, etc. For the moment, I'm putting things in a simple, tagged, colon-separated format. But before I go re-inventing the wheel, is there a standard format I should be using? (I looked at xmpeg3's tracks.idx format; is that based on a standard? It looks to be the similar to mine, although the tags are different.) Ultimately, this should all go in some sort of real database. Since relational queries would be useful, I might try mSQL. Does anyone have experience with it? Or mysql? What about a graphical interface -- is there anything better than xmpeg3? Something that provides CD-type controls (pause, play, fast-forward, etc.)? I'm using mpg123 right now to play the files, and I'll try out the other players, but does anyone else have an opinion on them? BTW, I had been using OSS, since I bought it about 6 months ago, but I noticed that my machine started crashing occasionally while playing mpeg3s, so I switched to Luigi's sound driver, which has worked flawlessly! Thanks a lot, Luigi! Steven grady@xcf.berkeley.edu PS I just ran into a bug, it appears. Having read some data using tosha, I switched to the FreeBSD 2.2.6 disc 1, to install some packages, but I'm now unable to mount the filesystem ("cd0(ahc0:2:0): BLANK CHECK asc:64,0 Illegal mode for this track") -- I suspect the driver is in a hosed state that will only resolve itself when I reboot. Has anyone else seen this? -- "But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the _old_ gods! He demands sacrifice!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message