Subject: Re: Playing video (MPEG, AVI, QT)
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Mike Parson <mparson@bl.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/18/2000 16:17:57
In message <Pine.NEB.4.21.0012181426530.11650-100000@fiona.amberites.invalid>, you write:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>
>> Hum, I think there are mpeg_play and xanim that can do it, at last with some
>> type of encodings.
>> Do we still have a mtv package ? This one should be able to play mpeg2 with
>> audio.
>
> "mtv" doesn't work --there's a problem with the linux threads
> emulation. Same for realplayer. Plus, they would both only work on
> i386 anyway. You can call "mtvp" directly to play the video part only,
> but that's about the same as mpeg_play, except you have no controls.

According to mpegtv.com, there is a BSD/OS version that might work under
NetBSD/i386.

> "xanim" play quicktime, but again, no audio.

Someone that is a better programmer than I (and is running netbsd
on a system with graphics) might be able to port LAMP to NetBSD:

http://pauillac.inria.fr/lamp/

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org