From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 06:26:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC91116A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:26:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 1upmc-msximc2.isdip.upmc.edu (1upmc-msximc2.isdip.upmc.edu [128.147.18.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C056043F93 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from personrp@ccbh.com) Received: by 1upmc-msximc2.isdip.upmc.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id <47SJK7JS>; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:26:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4BA256918ACE7449BD7896E65711C88B4A806F@1UPMC-MSX8.isdip.upmc.edu> From: "Person, Roderick" To: 'Eric Anderson' Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:26:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: mplayer X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:26:48 -0000 At the bottom of this page I have a link to my script I use. It doesn't do any cropping or anything like that. I went for the higher quality. http://opensourcebeef.bsd.st/osb/code.html Roderick Person Programmer personrp@ccbh.com http://www.ccbh.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Anderson [mailto:anderson@centtech.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 5:07 PM > To: Michal Pasternak > Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: mplayer > > > Michal Pasternak wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I suppose, that we all like to watch movies in divx format - > or share short > >.avis or .mpegs among our friends. As I recall, I've seen > many cases, that > >Windows user was either unable to watch the movie I've > sent/borrowed to > >him/her or had many problems with installing correct codecs > (or even finding > >them). > > > >Did you have similar experiences? If the answer is "yes" - > well, here's one > >more point for "FreeBSD on desktop" advocates: users > encounter less problems > >with movies while running FreeBSD. > > > Agreed - mplayer on FreeBSD runs flawlessly (for me anyway), and I've > played several types of movies and media with it. > > However, I'd love for someone to write up a "converting your > mpeg stream > to divx on FreeBSD" article. I don't know how to do this really, but > I'd love to help figure it out. I'd love to be able to take > my favorite > movie with me on my laptop when I'm traveling, without having > to carry > the DVD disc around.. > > Eric > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology > All generalizations are false, including this one. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >