From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 14:45:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7836D37B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 14:45:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f38.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.163.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF1A43F85 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 14:45:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crollins666@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 6 May 2003 14:45:33 -0700 Received: from 216.19.22.118 by sea1fd.sea1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 06 May 2003 21:45:33 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.19.22.118] X-Originating-Email: [crollins666@hotmail.com] From: "clayton rollins" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 21:45:33 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 May 2003 21:45:33.0763 (UTC) FILETIME=[D25DA930:01C31418] cc: gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch Subject: Re: Another reason to like FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 21:45:34 -0000 >On Tue, 6 May 2003 Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > >Tuesday, May 6, 2003, 10:27:01 PM, "clayton rollins" > wrote: > > > For now, though, I am plenty happy with the way it is. (I just got > > java to work; they're right, blackdown 1.3 is the best to use with > > konqueror...) I was more just using flash as an example that some > >multimedia, etc., apps are still somewhat hard to find/install/port. > >Flash is quite probably the only client that is hard to get running >under FreeBSD. Mplayer works like a charm so that video of Gnutella >surely will play, even if it's WMV or Quicktime (assuming you run X86 >FreeBSD of course) ;-) > >Best regards, > Gabriel > I have to agree. MPlayer is definitely a trick little piece of software (once you RTFM a few times), and with proper codecs can play almost any video. (It doesn't play nice with artsd for some reason I have yet to figure out, and has caused about 5 total lockups in 6 months, but, beyond being a little buggy, I really like it.) aKtion, kde's builtin video player, has also come quite a ways in kde 3.1, and will play a lot of videos, though still not as many as mplayer. Gnutella rocks and always will (as long as the RIAA doesn't kill it). I use gtk-gnutella, which is easily as good as any of the clients on windows, and currently have upward of 1 gig of distfiles shared. (and some media, docs, snes roms, etc.) It's always a quick (sometimes) and easy way to get those when all the ftp servers are busy or down. And, since the files need to pass the checksum listed in the ports directory, there's no extra security risk. Peace, Clayton _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus