Recordings of Sam Lefler's talk last night available.

Christian Brueffer chris at unixpages.org
Fri Mar 3 08:38:07 GMT 2006


[...]
> 
> mplayer may play it fine, but mplayer has no gui on windows and most of my 
> linux and freebsd boxes don't have much in the way of gui or multimedia 
> installed or configured.
> And none of them are under my desk or on my lap anyways. One freebsd box 
> has x and basic mm stuff and is under a desk, in a building in a town where 
> I don't happen to be at the moment.
> I could have rebooted my laptop to the freebsd partition, but that crashes 
> for some as yet unfound reason unless I boot in safe mode. (zd7000)
> I could have popped in a knoppix cd and presumably it has mplayer or xine 
> or something that would work, linux _probably_ won't trash my ntfs...
> 

What's the problem with mplayer not having a GUI?  On Windows, you can
just drag and drop a video file on the mplayer binary, and it starts
playing.  Very convenient.

- Christian

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