Dear Seve:
Aktion is great for Quicktime 2.1 and Avi files but handles mpeg-1 video
files very poorly. You need to get MpegTV (known as MTV for short) for
Linux from:
http://www.mpegtv.com
Two points:
1) It is NOT free. It is shareware and costs $10. It will stop working
at 30 seconds if you do not buy it. But it costs only $10 (ten) for the
shareware player (no need to pay more). That's very reasonable.
2) The streaming mpeg will work ONLY if you have a superfast cable
connection (around 4 or 5 MEG/sec). But, if you download the "plugger
3.x" plugin for Netscape (http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/plugger.html)
you'll be able to watch mpeg in your Netscape window after first
downloading the file from the server. Get the plugger rpm package. Make
things very easy. Plugger is also a plugin for many other file formats.
Read their home page. Since mpeg-1 video files are very large, you
should still have broadband to make it worthwhile. If you do, you can
download a 10 or 20 meg mpeg "movie" in a minute or two, then play it on
your Netscape screen using plugger. Quality is superb.
Benjamin
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Benjamin and Anna Sher
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Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
