Subject: re: video codec support?
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: mel kravitz <melk@switchpwr.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/15/2002 08:59:56
Hi,
Problem i was having is /usr/pkgsrc/graphics/xanim depends on
unsupported win32 codecs for alpha.
Thanks! i just edited /usr/pkgsrc/graphics/ogle Makefile to add -alpha
and installed ogle... need to get a dvd player and test it.
-Mel
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 17:29, matthew green wrote:
>
> Hi,
> For those of us with faster machines running XFree86-4.x,
> there is no video codec support in NetBSD. Programs such as mplayer,ogle
> etc.. are not supported. PWS machines are fine candidates to run these
> programs.Any hope we can eventually get this support?
>
>
> i run mplayer and other people run ogle very successfully on netbsd/macppc.
> there are the occasional video and audio codecs that are only in the
> win32-codecs package but i can view *most* of my video on the mac that is
> my desktop these days...
>
> have you tried using mplayer? perhaps you tried an video with an
> unsupported codec for non-i386...
>
>
> .mrg.