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Date:      Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:38:03 +0100
From:      Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>
To:        "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recordings of Sam Lefler's talk last night available.
Message-ID:  <20060303083803.GF1464@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
In-Reply-To: <008701c63e92$8f3acaa0$6800000a@venti>
References:  <44064110.5040901@elischer.org> <440742F6.5030704@elischer.org> <p0623090fc02d0c9670e8@[128.113.24.47]> <02d401c63e56$0632f430$6800000a@venti> <6.2.3.4.0.20060302230315.06c2c048@64.7.153.2> <008701c63e92$8f3acaa0$6800000a@venti>

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> mplayer may play it fine, but mplayer has no gui on windows and most of my 
> linux and freebsd boxes don't have much in the way of gui or multimedia 
> installed or configured.
> And none of them are under my desk or on my lap anyways. One freebsd box 
> has x and basic mm stuff and is under a desk, in a building in a town where 
> I don't happen to be at the moment.
> I could have rebooted my laptop to the freebsd partition, but that crashes 
> for some as yet unfound reason unless I boot in safe mode. (zd7000)
> I could have popped in a knoppix cd and presumably it has mplayer or xine 
> or something that would work, linux _probably_ won't trash my ntfs...
> 

What's the problem with mplayer not having a GUI?  On Windows, you can
just drag and drop a video file on the mplayer binary, and it starts
playing.  Very convenient.

- Christian

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