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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 9 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > I then found your BL3 plain text (with bold) version, which is
> > /usr/man/mplayer.gz (not a terribly conventional-looking location -
> > the other things in there are directories)
>
> As Steven said, this is for BL3, where the manpages are of this
> format.
>
> > and can read that just
> > fine.  How does one convert a man page to this format?  The
> > man-format one is 52K vs 63K for the text version.
>
> I use (with full-size man):
>
> man mplayer >mplayer.txt
> gzip mplayer.txt
> mv mplayer.txt.gz mplayer.gz

But it is about 8MB to install man and dependencies, which is why I was 
avoiding installing it and wanted text instead.  man2html was doing an 
okay job until mplayer.1 with <- etc.

> Steven may be able to provide you with a better method.
>
> > It will be great to be able to skip past the warning messages in a
> > DVD movie, and to see the second feature, but can I actually use
> > the above script to play DVD sound which is synchronized with the
> > DVD video?
>
> I notice that when -ao pcm is used on a regular video, the video
> goes at hyper speed. I'm not sure if the fifo helps smooth things
> out.

I don't think this answered my question about playing DVDs and getting 
sound on the Super Socket 7 AMD K6 350MHz which may or may not be i686.

> > If not, no big deal.  We must have ONE computer out of the three
> > newest ones that will work with your i686 mplayer.  Let me know if
> > I need an actual Intel cpu.
>
> You merely need something compatible, such as AMD or Cyrix chips.

Why won't the AMD K6 350MHz in super socket 7 work then?  I thought the
socket 7 might mean it is a PI not PII.

I will try it again in case I goofed.

> > Why is mplayer telling me 'No bind found for key F3
>
> Did you press F3? The message basically means, "You pressed F3,
> and I don't know what to do when that is pressed."
I probably did, trying to switch vts.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Clement" <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>
>
> > DVD isn't really image manipulation, it is more of displaying lots of
> > images really, really fast.
>
> The way those images are encoded (MPEG2) makes a big dent in the speed
> of decoding.
>
>
> David
>
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