Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:14:10 -0500 From: bsdnooby <bsdnooby@optonline.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: need help watching mpeg movies from archive.org Message-ID: <42229A92.3090307@optonline.net> In-Reply-To: <4222744E.1010609@optonline.net> References: <422191C0.3030007@optonline.net> <20050227092755.GA27988@xor.obsecurity.org> <42220CC5.6010903@optonline.net> <1109531819.54301.2.camel@localhost> <4222744E.1010609@optonline.net>
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I haven't had much luck watching movies. I tried avilfiles, mplayer, and xine. The file types I was trying to play were MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, and MPEG4-edit. I wanted to watch a movie about Japan, so after searching for "Japan" here: http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php I took the first link which is this movie: http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=19296 I downloaded every version of it, and haven't been able to watch any of them. I tried some other movies, with the same results. Basically, I get the sound along with a blue video. Can someone try to download a movie and tell what they had to do to be able to view it? I'm still not sure if I am supposed to install the codecs seperately, or maybe copy some files over from my old Windows installation. thx
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