From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 06:38:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DFAB16A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:38:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp803.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp803.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD44343D45 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:38:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@spymac.com) Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.myhost.com) (jtinnin@pacbell.net@64.173.24.106 with login) by smtp803.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Jun 2004 06:38:00 -0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:38:05 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406282338.05068.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Subject: Audio/multimedia recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: krinklyfig@spymac.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:38:07 -0000 OK, so I've finally moved over to FreeBSD from Linux, and I've fallen in love. To me, this OS makes so much more /sense/ than Linux, though I'm not evangelizing nor knocking anyone's choices. I realize the strength of the FreeBSD is on the server side, but I like it enough that I'm planning on using this current install as a workstation (and later I plan on using a combined FreeBSD/OpenBSD setup for a mail/web server network, OpenBSD being dedicated to firewalling). My stats are FreeBSD 5.2.1 RELEASE, KDE 3.2.3 (I also have Gnome but don't use it often). After toying around a bit with the various installed media players as well as installing XMMS (which has some quirky problems with KDE), I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations on media players, as this ain't cutting it and there are so many audio and multimedia ports that it's a rather daunting task trying to pick any of them. My previous Linux experience didn't involve much media, so I'm not familiar with what's popular or what works well. I'm particularly interested in any players which support streaming media, especially standards like Real and WMP. I tried going to the Real page to dl their player, after discovering it's no longer in ports, and there is no option for FreeBSD, and the Linux player is a binary - haven't tried it yet. Also, my mobo is an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe with an ATI Radeon 9600 XT video card. The mobo works fine with FreeBSD, but I haven't been able to get my video card to work, even though I've been through a number of steps advised on different sites, including building AGP into the kernel and Radeon support into XFree86. I've also searched through the list archives, but the answers given tend to vary, and the ones I've tried haven't worked. I know many people have asked about this issue, but I have yet to find a solution which works. Anyone have an answer they know works? I'm not all that interested in playing games on this machine or using 3D much at all, but it would be nice to speed up my system by actually using the video memory the card uses. - jt