Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:59:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris <chrismar@shasta.eclipse.net> To: Christopher Taylor <chris@thedial.com> Cc: Christoph Sold <cs@cheasy.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video formats on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907291158590.48606-100000@shasta.eclipse.net> In-Reply-To: <37A077AD.D180B0CB@thedial.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Does the windows media player even work under wine? Chris On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Christopher Taylor wrote: > Christoph Sold wrote: > >=20 > > Nick LoPresti writes: > > > I posted a message earlier(Subject: .asf files) but no one replied. = Don't > > > worry guys, I understand. > > > My question sorta changed anyways... here goes: > > > Is there a way to play .asf files on FreeBSD? It is Micro$oft's str= eaming > > > video format(or something like that). I imagine you have to install > > > something and run it under X. I just can't seem to find this oh so > > > wonderful program. Thanks for the help guys. > >=20 > > Since nobody answered yet, I guess there is nothing supporting this > > M$-private format. Following digital video closely, I never saw > > anything supporting this format but DOS-enhancers. Anyway, it won=B4t > > play under most Winblows boxes, too ;-) > >=20 > > Seriously: There seems to be nothing compatible with Microsoft=B4s .asf > > format. IMHO, this was done intentionally. OTOH, to get any streaming > > format working, you have to use one of a few known compression > > methods, only the compression parameters vary. So if you can get hold > > of the format, it would be relatively easy to adapt existing video > > decompressors. >=20 > The closest you're going to get is the Windows Media Player under > 'wine'. Keep track of Linux though...who knows when someone will hack a > player for the Linux platform... >=20 > --Chris >=20 > --=20 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >=20 > Christopher Taylor > Technical Director > Earth Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) > 415 East 200 South > Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 >=20 > phone: (801) 322-3949 > cell: (801) 541-8287 >=20 > email: chris@thedial.com >=20 >=20 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBN6B6Zfbh8rV07zbRAQHDBAMAstmb3JTtJTT4n2uqcmrZtXmqB3mMm+lZ /LMyHSs2bfzGfR1VXWJR4NDXFc+HwZ/kXn7O0XTmsnqpbqnfbKSeynWgHerrbG2A znZoGrzaHRgIxAHpt7dAqhzYDXJ6yH51 =3D3VG7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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