LiVid / linuxvideo

[Edward Glowacki]

Quoted from Edward Glowacki on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:42:49PM -0400:
> Quoted from Dennis Kelly on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:14:17PM -0400:
> > I experienced the same problems with OMS/OMI.  I was also not able to
> > stop, pause, or skip chapters once I hit play.  Xine was a little
> > better, but it wouldn't play a few of my DVDs for some reason (it
> > would seg fault) and would crash spuratically.  IMHO, the best DVD
> > player by far is Video Lan Client (VLC):
> > 
> >     http://www.videolan.org/
> > 
> > Development of it is much more rigorous than OMS/OMI or Xine.  It is
> > licensed under the GPL, it is stable, and has many features: slow
> > motion, fast forward, pause, arbitrary jumps within the stream,
> > chapter selection, etc.  I almost resorted to finding commericial
> > alternatives until I used it.
> 
> I'm close to getting it running on FreeBSD... unfortunately it
> fails and core dumps right now...  I've gotten it to spew out some
> sound before it dies though! =)  (This is with mpeg files, not
> DVD's... haven't tried a DVD yet...)

An update:

DVD now works in FreeBSD using videolan!!! =)  

I believe it also takes advantage of the hardware acceleration,
since playing an MPEG file seems to use < 10%... It almost didn't
register on my load meter for small files, and even the largest
one I could find was only about 8% CPU.  Have to try a DVD comparison
to see how much CPU is used there, but so far I'm quite impressed
with videolan!!!  woo woo!!! =)

(www.videolan.org)

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