From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri May 4 2:33:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from chuggalug.clues.com (chuggalug.clues.com [194.159.1.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CC5237B423 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 02:33:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com) Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by chuggalug.clues.com (8.11.3/8.9.3) id f449Xab35739; Fri, 4 May 2001 10:33:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from geoffb) Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 10:33:36 +0100 From: Geoff Buckingham To: Heiko Recktenwald Cc: Bakul Shah , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MPEG Video and realplay Message-ID: <20010504103336.B35697@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <20010501225701.A19838@chuggalug.clues.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Heiko Recktenwald on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:39:53PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:39:53PM +0200, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > > > > > > MPEG and SMIL would be nice. > > > > > Works fine for me. Install the audio/linux-realplayer > > > > port. Checkout /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/mimeinstall.sh to > > > > see which mime types are handled by it. > > > MPEG video for realplayer used to be handled by a pluggin from > > bitcasting (www.bitcasting.com), this was originally only available in > > windows (and was very good). They have however been bought by EMC. > > Well, I have problems with Real also on Windows. It might be ok with > simple MPEG Video filelists (.ram or .m3u). But I couldnt see much Video > in SMIL. Quicktime was better. It is a PII, 233 Mhz, 64 MB Ram. The URL > is http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/blatv.smi . > > SMIL is great, but still not fully devellopped IMHO. There are special > QT tags and special Real tags. > > Is there any paper in the net describing the differences between the two > players, describe the common tags in detail ? QT documentation for SMIL seems to be near non-existant, Apple do produce a QT book, but I have thus far not shelled out for it, so can't comment on its use. > > Currently I use the description in: > > http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/production8/htmfiles/smil.htm > This is what I have been using too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message