Subject: Re: Playing video (MPEG, AVI, QT)
To: Mike Parson <mparson@bl.org>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/19/2000 11:05:01
On Mon Dec 18 2000 at 16:17:57 -0600, Mike Parson wrote:
> > "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.

BSD/OS version works, but sounds don't. You can, however, pipe audio to
eg. mpg123 using the -a2 switch and get audio support that way. It works
quite well.

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Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>          v          Of course he runs NetBSD
http://www.iki.fi/pooka/             i            http://www.NetBSD.org/