From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 26 13:49:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CDA615226 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:49:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12DaJM-000P2F-00; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:49:12 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA37986; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:49:12 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:49:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Brett Taylor Cc: Will Andrews , freebsd-chat Subject: Re: getting rid of windows... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Brett Taylor wrote: >For MPEG movies, I've previously used mpeg_play for video - it doesn't do >audio however. I've since downloaded and tried mtv (under Linux Might check this out... >For MP3s I use mpg123 and usually play them under gqmpeg. Works fine w/ >me. For music i prefer to use my stereo...or discman... so this really isn't a problem for me. >WAV files I use splay although you can just cat them to /dev/audio. >splay can also do mp1 and mp2. The problem i had here was catting to /dev/audio slowed the sample to half speed. Maybe splay will handle it better. >For Quicktime movies, xanim also works fine (again barring the >availability of CODECs). Note that xanin can't do the latest Quicktime >because Sorenson won't release the CODEC. This one sounds like a winner. >> > Games. Enough said. >There are more and more games for Linux that will run under compatibility. Those all sound like fun. I was hooked to Monkey Island and the other Lucasfilm games for a while. I'd like to finish it, but my brother-in-law lost one of the 2 CD-ROMs. I'm always worried the next big game will be one i want to play... but frankly i'm just not interested in what i have seen. Don't forget XGalaga. That one is a lot of fun... ;-) -=> jm <=- "I've done questionable things, also extraordinary things.... Revel in your time!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message