From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Oct 14 2:16:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F262B37B66C for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 02:16:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fwd03.sul.t-online.com by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 13kNPc-0008FA-09; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:15:28 +0200 Received: from giskard.foundation.hs (320048919767-0001@[62.158.211.49]) by fwd03.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 13kNPV-0Yj6waC; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:15:21 +0200 Received: from daneel.foundation.hs (daneel.foundation.hs [192.168.20.2]) by giskard.foundation.hs (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA31311 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:16:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hschaefer@fto.de) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:11:20 +0200 (CEST) From: 320048919767-0001@t-online.de (Heiko Schaefer) To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VideoCD and/or MPEG4 players for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200010131733.TAA05717@monos.secnetix.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 320048919767-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Oliver, hi list, > Heiko Schaefer <320048919767-0001@t-online.de> wrote: > > have a look at the xine project (xine.sourceforge.net), aside from the > > problem with video cd reading that we currently have on freebsd > > Do we have such a problem? I can watch VideoCDs fine on > FreeBSD (using tosha + MpegTV). BTW, I think they even > have a BSD binary of MpetTV, although I'm not sure about > this. I've been using the Linux binary (mtvp) for a long > time and never had any problems. of course there is no general problem with watching vcds on freebsd, but xine has a problem. and that problem is caused by the fact that (as far as i understand it by now) there is no general (nice) way to read vcds on both atapi and scsi drives under freebsd. tosha uses direct scsi calls, which is arguably not the right way (tm) to do it. please take your time to try out xine and play some mpeg1 stream with it (that isnt situated on a vcd) - you will probably agree with me that the output is nicer that mtv's. i plan to find myself an atapi cdrom for my freebsd box to write the vcd input plugin within the next few days (now that i at last have a little time on my hands for this), using the method that soren told me about, using normal reads - hopefully it will work the same way for scsi eventually. Heiko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message