viewing AVI files...

[Mike Benjamin]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:56:40AM -0700, David A. Sinck wrote:
: 
: 
: \_ SMTP quoth Mike Benjamin on 3/12/2002 09:43 as having spake thusly:
: \_
: \_ I've used mplayer in FreeBSD and xine in Linux both with good results,
: \_ but for impressive video playback make sure you're using the SDL output
: \_ of the player you choose.  SDL = sexy;  
: 
: How would one tell on the various players?  
: 
: I'm happy to see _Tripping the Rift_ period.  :-)

xine has performance issues in FreeBSD so I don't have it installed,
so possibly someone else can answer that one.  In mplayer you have
various output drivers:

list the drivers:
mplayer -vo help

select the sdl driver:
mplayer -vo sdl

alias it in a bourne shell world:
echo alias mplayer='mplayer -vo sdl' >> .profile

alias it in a c shell world:
echo alias mplayer 'mplayer -vo sdl' >> .login

To verify it's working, when mplayer starts up it will display the
current video and audio drivers it's using, make sure it mentions SDL.

I notice much less choppy video and better full screen viewing with SDL.

Hope that helps!

--mikeb

: David
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