Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:50:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VideoCD and/or MPEG4 players for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200010161650.SAA62260@monos.secnetix.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010141036180.47838-100000@daneel.foundation.hs>
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Heiko Schaefer <320048919767-0001@t-online.de> wrote: > Hi Oliver, hi list, >> 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. That's true. It would be very helpful, though, if FreeBSD supported ATAPI drives as SCSI devices, like most other operating systems do (including Linux and OpenBSD). > 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. It's not in the ports, and I don't have the time to do it myself, I'm afraid. However, I'm perfectly satisfied with the output of MpegTV. Most of the time, of course, using a real VCD player or DVD player is the best solution, of course. I'm only using MpegTV on the computer to preview stuff or watch files that I don't have on VCD. Regards Oliver PS: If someone makes a port from xine, I'll try it. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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