From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 26 13:59:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5AF115548 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:57:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA16593; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:56:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:56:09 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: Jonathon McKitrick 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 Hi Jonathan On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Brett Taylor wrote: > > >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. Me too, but I spend a LOT of time in my office and I don't have a discman. :-) > >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. I recall this - did you try using sox to change them to a different sample speed? > >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. What I'd REALLY like is for Apple to release a version of their Quicktime player for BSD. Cripes, OS X userland is based on BSD, couldn't they please give me a player for Quicktime? I'd pay for it, binary only even! Good grief they gave us the server - I want a PLAYER! :-) Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message