4 Sep
2004
4 Sep
'04
10:03 p.m.
On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 02:05 -0400, der Mouse wrote:
works here with mplayer under Redhat 9 from a shell (version 1.0pre2-
RPM-3.1) just using x11 as the output device. Although I don't know if
sound works - can't be bothered to get up off the chair and go switch
the amp on :-)
I haven't got mpeg playback working from a web browser yet but I'm none
too fussed about trying!
MPEGs of a
pair of pretty spectacular, somewhat-unintentional,
power-line Jacobs Ladders [...]
http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm
Unfortunately the two long-arc mpegs just produce
Unexpected startcode 00000000 in system layer
when thrown at my mpeg player.
I went looking for updates to the software I use, and it doesn't appear
there are any; the readme webpage shows a date of "July 19, 1996".
Anyone know of an open-source mpeg player that doesn't require
installing the kitchen sink and yet is reasonably up-to-date? I actively don't want a GUI.
jules@pukeko[~]$ mplayer -vo x11 /tmp/500kV_Switch.mpg
Couldn't be easier. Actually, giving the URL as the filename works
too...
I don't want
a program that tries to do everything, even for small values of
"everything". I want a program that does one well-contained task well:
unpacking MPEGs into video frames. Doing audio data would be a plus.)
Actually mplayer does seem to do a lot - I generally use it for
converting mp3 files back to a raw audio file, plus something else I
need to look at is how to get it to dump a realplayer stream to disk (I
think it can do it)
cheers
Jules