From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Apr 15 12: 0:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from f2node23.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node23.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.14.223]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D4637B400 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:00:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p29.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.29]) by f2node23.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA50222 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:00:32 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g3FIuTd00488 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:56:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:56:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mpeg 4/divx Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi folks, did some "research" in mpeg 4 availability and, as far as I could see, there is no "ruling mpeg 4 standard" today. DivX is more and more commercial and special, "standard hinted mpeg-4" is something more and more completely different. Has anybody ever been successfull in compiling the mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net mpeg4ip-0.9.3 tarball ? some utilities seem to work, but the mp4player doesnt. you need gmake for it. Couldnt play or encode anything. The whole "internet TV" scene seems to be driven by big money expectations. Quicktime 6 has been stopped. Cant download the Philips "mp4net webcine" player, all I currently have for "mpeg 4" is the envivio plugin for the Real player on windows, which seems to work fine (if you let the real player download it from the real site...) . The biggest surprise was in man mp4creator, you can "optimize" mp4 to do http streaming. You can check it out at http://intra.b.lab.net/~uzs106/bla/optimized.ram with real on windows. mp4creator seems to work here... Sorry, if I am completely wrong with my impressions about DiVX, but... Dont know if it are the players, that refuse to play "alien" files or the files themselves. mpeg4ip seems to be based on some kind of divx (see divxenc). H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message