On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I meant to ask about Windows Media Player (in addition to Real Player), if there
> was any way DOS, Linux or Archhne could play those streaming audio files.
I've been using the 0.17a version of mplayer, which
handles .asf, .wmv, .avi, .mpeg, etc. though I've
downloaded two .mov files which it doesn't have support
for. QuickTime (.mov) files use a proprietary codec
(Sorensen) which may or may not ever be available for
Linux.
http://mplayer.dev.hu/homepage/
I see there's been a 0.18 release. I just might
have to upgrade.
> But is USB or IEEE 1394 (Firewire) recognized by
> the BIOS at all?
USB is on the motherboard, so is of course recognized
by the BIOS. Dunno much about Firewire.
> What is Romeo CD file system used for?
I've never heard of Romeo before... Rock Ridge, yes.
It could be that Romeo is a slang kind of term for
Rock Ridge. Let's dig into a man page here... mkisofs.
First, a bit about iso9660:
Each file written to the iso9660 filesystem must have a filename
in the 8.3 format (8 characters, period, 3 characters, all upper
case), even if Rock Ridge is in use. This filename is used on
systems that are not able to make use of the Rock Ridge extensions
(such as MS-DOS), and each file name in each directory must be
different from the other filenames in the same directory. mkisofs
generally tries to form correct names by forcing the unix filename to
upper case and truncating as required...
-J Generate Joliet directory records in addition to regular iso9660
file names. This is primarily useful when the discs are to be used
on Windows-NT or Windows-95 machines. The Joliet filenames are
specified in Unicode and each path component can be up to 64 Unicode
characters long.
-R Generate SUSP and RR records using the Rock Ridge protocol to
further describe the files on the iso9660 filesystem.
[typically used for 'nix systems]
-U Allows "Untranslated" filenames, completely violating the iso9660
standards described above. Forces on the -d, -l, -L and -N flags,
and also allows more than one '.' character in the filename, as well
as mixed case filenames. This is useful on HP-UX system, where the
built-in CDFS filesystem does not recognize ANY extensions. Use with
extreme caution.
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