Re: The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application
2009/4/11 Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com: Hi all, After weeks of fumbling and struggling, I have made my full transition from Linux to FreeBSD, thanks in no mean measures to the assistance of this forum. I've got my FreeBSD 7.1 x86 system set up exactly as I wanted it and now I am looking to move one step further - and that is one big step. I wish to get rid of my Windows installation too, which exists purely for the purpose of multimedia entertainment - one area where I think GNU-based systems still have some way to go before they catch up with Win32 applications. However, I am willing to give it a try. I already have xmms set up, which takes care of the audio part reasonably well. The big hole that remains is a video application. What I looking for is something on these lines : 1) I hardly ever play movies directly from the CD/DVD drive (/dev/dvd - /dev/acd0, courtesy devfs.conf). First I copy them to the hard-disk (after decrypting any DVD's if needed). So I ideally want an application that can play .dat and unencrypted .vob files directly from a hard disk ntfs partition without incessently complaining about missing plugins. (If necessary, I can reformat the ntfs partition as ffs). Actually, to be more accurate, I don't even have any .vob files. What I have is unencrypted .iso images of the DVD's, which I guess I will need to mount via mdconfig. But if the application strictly needs .vob files, I'll extract them from the iso images for its benefit. 2) Since my DVD drive is capable of reading DVD's from all regions, it would be great if the application could also, if needed, directly play encrypted DVD's from the drive itself. I have libdvdnav, libdvdread, libdvdcss and libdvdplay installed. 3) The final point to be considered is the quality of the video/audio playback compared to, say, PowerDVD on Windows - which I have used (version 2.55) with absolute delight and satisfaction since I purchased my first DVD. Any tips/input would be greatly appreciated. To keep the discussion simple, HD/Blu-Ray are not in my plans for the current century. -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. Have you tried vlc for video? I'm sure it's not something you've completely overlooked, but it's probably worth another. You seem settled on xmms, have you also tried out musicpd for music? You can use Sonata as a frontend, very nice to use, or even over HTTP. It also carries on fine should X crap out :) Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, After weeks of fumbling and struggling, I have made my full transition from Linux to FreeBSD, thanks in no mean measures to the assistance of this forum. I've got my FreeBSD 7.1 x86 system set up exactly as I wanted it and now I am looking to move one step further - and that is one big step. I wish to get rid of my Windows installation too, which exists purely for the purpose of multimedia entertainment - one area where I think GNU-based systems still have some way to go before they catch up with Win32 applications. However, I am willing to give it a try. I already have xmms set up, which takes care of the audio part reasonably well. The big hole that remains is a video application. What I looking for is something on these lines : 1) I hardly ever play movies directly from the CD/DVD drive (/dev/dvd - /dev/acd0, courtesy devfs.conf). First I copy them to the hard-disk (after decrypting any DVD's if needed). So I ideally want an application that can play .dat and unencrypted .vob files directly from a hard disk ntfs partition without incessently complaining about missing plugins. (If necessary, I can reformat the ntfs partition as ffs). Actually, to be more accurate, I don't even have any .vob files. What I have is unencrypted .iso images of the DVD's, which I guess I will need to mount via mdconfig. But if the application strictly needs .vob files, I'll extract them from the iso images for its benefit. 2) Since my DVD drive is capable of reading DVD's from all regions, it would be great if the application could also, if needed, directly play encrypted DVD's from the drive itself. I have libdvdnav, libdvdread, libdvdcss and libdvdplay installed. 3) The final point to be considered is the quality of the video/audio playback compared to, say, PowerDVD on Windows - which I have used (version 2.55) with absolute delight and satisfaction since I purchased my first DVD. Any tips/input would be greatly appreciated. To keep the discussion simple, HD/Blu-Ray are not in my plans for the current century. Have you tried the ports multimedia/mplayer or multimedia/vlc? I can't live without mplayer on my desktop and it usually just works on everything i try to play. If you want a fancy GUI, search in ports/multimedia for mplayer and you will find kde-mplayer, gnome-mplayer and friends. Video playback and tv-out is one big reason why I dont use windows on my desktop. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application
Erik Gustafson writes: Have you tried the ports multimedia/mplayer or multimedia/vlc? I can't live without mplayer on my desktop and it usually just works on everything i try to play. I use mplayer too, but (as far as I know) the list of supported codecs hasn't changed in several years. That's mostly not a problem, but there are certain file types (.wmvs I have been told are handled correctly by Windows Media Player 10/11; this may be a DRM thing) that completely do not play. If you want a fancy GUI, search in ports/multimedia for mplayer and you will find kde-mplayer, gnome-mplayer and friends. Mplayer has a gui (gmplayer) but it's pretty minimal. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application
Robert Huff wrote: Erik Gustafson writes: Have you tried the ports multimedia/mplayer or multimedia/vlc? I can't live without mplayer on my desktop and it usually just works on everything i try to play. I use mplayer too, but (as far as I know) the list of supported codecs hasn't changed in several years. That's mostly not a problem, but there are certain file types (.wmvs I have been told are handled correctly by Windows Media Player 10/11; this may be a DRM thing) that completely do not play. If you want a fancy GUI, search in ports/multimedia for mplayer and you will find kde-mplayer, gnome-mplayer and friends. Mplayer has a gui (gmplayer) but it's pretty minimal. Robert Huff Hello Robert / Erik, Thanks a lot. MPlayer certainly seems to come with strong credentials and recommendation. I am starting the build straight away. Since I am a die-hard gnomer, I'll go for gnome-mplayer as the frontend. -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: The Last Frontier : a good multimedia application
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/11 Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com: Hi all, After weeks of fumbling and struggling, I have made my full transition from Linux to FreeBSD, thanks in no mean measures to the assistance of this forum. I've got my FreeBSD 7.1 x86 system set up exactly as I wanted it and now I am looking to move one step further - and that is one big step. I wish to get rid of my Windows installation too, which exists purely for the purpose of multimedia entertainment - one area where I think GNU-based systems still have some way to go before they catch up with Win32 applications. However, I am willing to give it a try. I already have xmms set up, which takes care of the audio part reasonably well. The big hole that remains is a video application. What I looking for is something on these lines : 1) I hardly ever play movies directly from the CD/DVD drive (/dev/dvd - /dev/acd0, courtesy devfs.conf). First I copy them to the hard-disk (after decrypting any DVD's if needed). So I ideally want an application that can play .dat and unencrypted .vob files directly from a hard disk ntfs partition without incessently complaining about missing plugins. (If necessary, I can reformat the ntfs partition as ffs). Actually, to be more accurate, I don't even have any .vob files. What I have is unencrypted .iso images of the DVD's, which I guess I will need to mount via mdconfig. But if the application strictly needs .vob files, I'll extract them from the iso images for its benefit. 2) Since my DVD drive is capable of reading DVD's from all regions, it would be great if the application could also, if needed, directly play encrypted DVD's from the drive itself. I have libdvdnav, libdvdread, libdvdcss and libdvdplay installed. 3) The final point to be considered is the quality of the video/audio playback compared to, say, PowerDVD on Windows - which I have used (version 2.55) with absolute delight and satisfaction since I purchased my first DVD. Any tips/input would be greatly appreciated. To keep the discussion simple, HD/Blu-Ray are not in my plans for the current century. -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. Have you tried vlc for video? I'm sure it's not something you've completely overlooked, but it's probably worth another. You seem settled on xmms, have you also tried out musicpd for music? You can use Sonata as a frontend, very nice to use, or even over HTTP. It also carries on fine should X crap out :) Chris Hello Chris, Thanks for the input. I certainly am not settled on xmms. It's the only one I was aware of so far. Further to that, I WAS actually for something that could do without X, because I work a lot on the console. I'll start the musicpd build right away. -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
