Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:52:31 -0500 From: Curtis Almond <cjalmond@gmail.com> To: krinklyfig@spymac.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Audio/multimedia recommendations Message-ID: <92b67e1b04062914527a5ccdc0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200406282338.05068.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <200406282338.05068.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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I have tried the following on earlier version of BSD. I had a specific need for MP3 jukebox features. Juk with KDE Net-Rhythm Jukebox (currently broken) Juk was functional and did a good job at organizing my small mp3 collection. Curtis On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:38:05 -0700, Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote: > > OK, so I've finally moved over to FreeBSD from Linux, and I've fallen in love. > To me, this OS makes so much more /sense/ than Linux, though I'm not > evangelizing nor knocking anyone's choices. I realize the strength of the > FreeBSD is on the server side, but I like it enough that I'm planning on > using this current install as a workstation (and later I plan on using a > combined FreeBSD/OpenBSD setup for a mail/web server network, OpenBSD being > dedicated to firewalling). My stats are FreeBSD 5.2.1 RELEASE, KDE 3.2.3 (I > also have Gnome but don't use it often). After toying around a bit with the > various installed media players as well as installing XMMS (which has some > quirky problems with KDE), I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations on > media players, as this ain't cutting it and there are so many audio and > multimedia ports that it's a rather daunting task trying to pick any of them. > My previous Linux experience didn't involve much media, so I'm not familiar > with what's popular or what works well. I'm particularly interested in any > players which support streaming media, especially standards like Real and > WMP. I tried going to the Real page to dl their player, after discovering > it's no longer in ports, and there is no option for FreeBSD, and the Linux > player is a binary - haven't tried it yet. > > Also, my mobo is an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe with an ATI Radeon 9600 XT video card. > The mobo works fine with FreeBSD, but I haven't been able to get my video > card to work, even though I've been through a number of steps advised on > different sites, including building AGP into the kernel and Radeon support > into XFree86. I've also searched through the list archives, but the answers > given tend to vary, and the ones I've tried haven't worked. I know many > people have asked about this issue, but I have yet to find a solution which > works. Anyone have an answer they know works? I'm not all that interested in > playing games on this machine or using 3D much at all, but it would be nice > to speed up my system by actually using the video memory the card uses. > > - jt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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