Thanks, but
MPEG4 is needed.
No problem to play MPEG1,2 on any Alpha/Linux/Tru64 workstation.
I easy use mpeg.1x from Tru64. Very good and very fast!
I asked about DivX MPEG4
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Petrakis <peter.petrakis@api-networks.com>
To: <axp-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: MPEG4 or DivX
> Have you ever tried "plaympeg" in RH-7.0? Works well for me.
> I can play the intro movies for neverwinter nights like a charm.
>
>
> sh-2.04$ which plaympeg
> /usr/bin/plaympeg
> sh-2.04$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/plaympeg
> smpeg-0.4.0-5
> sh-2.04$ rpm -qi smpeg
> Name: smpeg Relocations: (not
> relocateable)
> Version: 0.4.0 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release: 5 Build Date: Mon 07 Aug 2000
> 07:53:49 AM EDT
> Install date: Tue 13 Mar 2001 04:46:57 AM EST Build Host:
> porky.devel.redhat.com
> Group: System Environment/Libraries Source RPM:
> smpeg-0.4.0-5.src.rpm
> Size: 443827 License: LGPL
> Packager: Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL: http://www.lokigames.com/development/smpeg.php3
> Summary: SDL MPEG Library
> Description:
> SMPEG is based on UC Berkeley's mpeg_play software MPEG decoder
> and SPLAY, an mpeg audio decoder created by Woo-jae Jung. We have
> completed the initial work to wed these two projects in order to
> create a general purpose MPEG video/audio player for the Linux OS.
>
>
> Peter
>
> jonas@detroit.johanneberg.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > No I´m not sure that it runs on alpha, I´ve only run it on x86. I tried
to
> > compile it last night, and it failed. Sorry if I caused truble for you.
> >
> > I then tried to compile XMPS (http://xmps.sourceforge.net) which
supports
> > DivX through OpenDivX. It compiled after I fixed some "cast to pointer
> > from integer of different size" by changing int to long int. Sorry to
say,
> > the player gui came up, but it refused to play any files.
> >
> > It´s too bad that it seems like it dosen´t exist any descent mpeg player
> > for alphalinux, even a player without DivX support
> >
> > If you find one, please let me know.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Jonas Sjöquist
> >
> > On Fri, 4 May 2001, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> >
> > > Hello !
> > > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:09:06PM +0200, jonas wrote:
> > > > Check out http://thot.banki.hu/esp-team/MPlayer.html , think it
supports
> > > > DiVX.
> > >
> > > but (from the webpage):
> > > Most of time-critical parts are optimized for MMX/MMXext/SSE/3DNow!.
> > > You can improve rendering speed by setting up MTRR registers, see
> > > doc in MTRR.
> > >
> > > Are you sure it runs on Alpha ?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Helge
> > > --
> > > Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys.
kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de
> > > For gpg-key: finger kreutzm@rigel.itp.uni-hannover.de
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http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm
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