Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:47:57 -0600 From: Christopher Taylor <chris@thedial.com> To: Christoph Sold <cs@cheasy.de>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video formats on FreeBSD Message-ID: <37A077AD.D180B0CB@thedial.com> References: <14240.18790.994820.481249@kiste.cheasy.de>
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Christoph Sold wrote: > > Nick LoPresti writes: > > I posted a message earlier(Subject: .asf files) but no one replied. Don't > > worry guys, I understand. > > My question sorta changed anyways... here goes: > > Is there a way to play .asf files on FreeBSD? It is Micro$oft's streaming > > video format(or something like that). I imagine you have to install > > something and run it under X. I just can't seem to find this oh so > > wonderful program. Thanks for the help guys. > > Since nobody answered yet, I guess there is nothing supporting this > M$-private format. Following digital video closely, I never saw > anything supporting this format but DOS-enhancers. Anyway, it won´t > play under most Winblows boxes, too ;-) > > Seriously: There seems to be nothing compatible with Microsoft´s .asf > format. IMHO, this was done intentionally. OTOH, to get any streaming > format working, you have to use one of a few known compression > methods, only the compression parameters vary. So if you can get hold > of the format, it would be relatively easy to adapt existing video > decompressors. The closest you're going to get is the Windows Media Player under 'wine'. Keep track of Linux though...who knows when someone will hack a player for the Linux platform... --Chris -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christopher Taylor Technical Director Earth Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) 415 East 200 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 phone: (801) 322-3949 cell: (801) 541-8287 email: chris@thedial.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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