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  • From: Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] MPlayer
  • Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 00:08:39 -0400

David Moberg wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>


I tested the first mplayer (for PII or later) and the third version (for any pentium) on a chiropractic video clip from www.chironhealth.com said to be 1 min long. It had no sound and it was .rm (realmedia) format. (It took me five minutes to find a non-porno clip and I had to search on video clip instead of free download mpg!). Both players played it in 24 seconds from start to finish. It was less boring at this speed.

This was a very small, low-quality clip, 398K. Is it a conclusive enough test that we can all drop the first two versions now?


Probably not, but when you combine it with other observations, you
can make the conclusion that #3 is superior or equal to #1 and #2
in every way. I've dropped the first two. Everyone else probably
can, too.


I ran across various Windows programs that convert between formats.


mencoder (which comes with MPlayer) does that job.


Is there a native linux video format?


Not really. Ogg Theora (with Vorbis audio) is mainly used on Linux,
but it's far from popular. MPEG is mostly platform-independent. AVI
originated on Windows, MOV on Macs, and of course there are all of
the proprietary A/V formats (RM, ASF, WMV)

Of course there is! It's XviD. Very popular clone of the the DivX codec except XviD is open source. Very high quality, most online TV shows, etc. use it. MPEG is platform independant. AVI is a container format which many other formats like MPEG4 (XviD, DivX) or Intel Indeo use. MOV is quicktime, and of course there are the rest of the proprietary ones you mentioned.

David


Stephen Clement




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