From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 14:07:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F1E16A4DE for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:07:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E625C43FCB for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [204.177.173.28]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h9EL7g6T050045; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:07:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3F8C658F.7020604@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:07:27 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michal Pasternak References: <20031014224219.GD10429@pasternak.w.lub.pl> In-Reply-To: <20031014224219.GD10429@pasternak.w.lub.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:07:45 -0000 Michal Pasternak wrote: >Hi, > >I suppose, that we all like to watch movies in divx format - or share short >.avis or .mpegs among our friends. As I recall, I've seen many cases, that >Windows user was either unable to watch the movie I've sent/borrowed to >him/her or had many problems with installing correct codecs (or even finding >them). > >Did you have similar experiences? If the answer is "yes" - well, here's one >more point for "FreeBSD on desktop" advocates: users encounter less problems >with movies while running FreeBSD. > Agreed - mplayer on FreeBSD runs flawlessly (for me anyway), and I've played several types of movies and media with it. However, I'd love for someone to write up a "converting your mpeg stream to divx on FreeBSD" article. I don't know how to do this really, but I'd love to help figure it out. I'd love to be able to take my favorite movie with me on my laptop when I'm traveling, without having to carry the DVD disc around.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------