Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:26:27 -0400 From: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> To: 'Eric Anderson' <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: mplayer Message-ID: <4BA256918ACE7449BD7896E65711C88B4A806F@1UPMC-MSX8.isdip.upmc.edu>
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At the bottom of this page I have a link to my script I use. It doesn't do any cropping or anything like that. I went for the higher quality. http://opensourcebeef.bsd.st/osb/code.html Roderick Person Programmer personrp@ccbh.com http://www.ccbh.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Anderson [mailto:anderson@centtech.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 5:07 PM > To: Michal Pasternak > Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: mplayer > > > 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. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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