Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:56:09 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, freebsd-chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: getting rid of windows... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001261653340.16351-100000@peloton.runet.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001262144210.37855-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Hi Jonathan On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Brett Taylor wrote: > > >For MP3s I use mpg123 and usually play them under gqmpeg. Works fine > >w/ me. > > For music i prefer to use my stereo...or discman... so this really > isn't a problem for me. Me too, but I spend a LOT of time in my office and I don't have a discman. :-) > >WAV files I use splay although you can just cat them to /dev/audio. > >splay can also do mp1 and mp2. > The problem i had here was catting to /dev/audio slowed the sample to > half speed. Maybe splay will handle it better. I recall this - did you try using sox to change them to a different sample speed? > >For Quicktime movies, xanim also works fine (again barring the > >availability of CODECs). Note that xanin can't do the latest > >Quicktime because Sorenson won't release the CODEC. > > This one sounds like a winner. What I'd REALLY like is for Apple to release a version of their Quicktime player for BSD. Cripes, OS X userland is based on BSD, couldn't they please give me a player for Quicktime? I'd pay for it, binary only even! Good grief they gave us the server - I want a PLAYER! :-) Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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