Re: Movie players
Piero Piutti writes:
>All you need is mplayer, the w32codecs and mozilla-mplayer (aka
>mplayerplug-in). It will work as a charm: tested with the Quicktime trailers
>on Apple's website.
I second that. I installed MPlayer-1.0pre7 and the codecs
directory that one should also install and am amazed how well it
works. I mainly use it to listen to streaming audio from various
radio stations. As a computer user who happens to be blind, I do not
run X yet because it is not quite ready for prime time so I was amazed
to find that I could even listen to some TV audio. I tried solent.tv
which is in the Isle of White in the UK and was able to listen to the
audio of a recent newscast. It was a .wvx file and I have no idea
whether or not there are PAL/NTSC/SECAM issues or not. The sound was
not terribly good but it didn't sound broken in any way. The codec
gave it a hollow well sort of effect, but the voices and music were
the correct pitch and probably sounded like that on any computer
accessing the broadcast.
MP3 streams and Windows audio streams sound anywhere from
perfect to pretty good depending upon the sampling rate.
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