Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 10:33:36 +0100 From: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com> To: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Cc: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MPEG Video and realplay Message-ID: <20010504103336.B35697@chuggalug.clues.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105021530510.407-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber>; from Heiko Recktenwald on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:39:53PM %2B0200 References: <20010501225701.A19838@chuggalug.clues.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105021530510.407-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber>
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On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:39:53PM +0200, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > > > > > > MPEG and SMIL would be nice. > > > > > Works fine for me. Install the audio/linux-realplayer > > > > port. Checkout /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/mimeinstall.sh to > > > > see which mime types are handled by it. > > > MPEG video for realplayer used to be handled by a pluggin from > > bitcasting (www.bitcasting.com), this was originally only available in > > windows (and was very good). They have however been bought by EMC. > > Well, I have problems with Real also on Windows. It might be ok with > simple MPEG Video filelists (.ram or .m3u). But I couldnt see much Video > in SMIL. Quicktime was better. It is a PII, 233 Mhz, 64 MB Ram. The URL > is http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/blatv.smi . > > SMIL is great, but still not fully devellopped IMHO. There are special > QT tags and special Real tags. > > Is there any paper in the net describing the differences between the two > players, describe the common tags in detail ? QT documentation for SMIL seems to be near non-existant, Apple do produce a QT book, but I have thus far not shelled out for it, so can't comment on its use. > > Currently I use the description in: > > http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/production8/htmfiles/smil.htm > This is what I have been using too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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