I installed Mplayer from source last year and it was a PITA. I have since found unofficial Debian packages for Mplayer which are available from
http://marillat.free.fr/ It has been a while since I have used mplayer, but I seem to remember it working ok for my needs. >On Tuesday 09 March 2004 22:49, Derek Martin scribbled: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:45:55PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > When: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 7:00 PM (6:30 for general Q&A) > > Topic: LinuxSoup VII:Movie Production with Linux & Cinelerra > > Location: MIT Building 4-370 > > Presented by: Christoph Doerbeck > > This is an interesting topic. I wish I could come. Since I can't, I > have a few questions which might serve as an introduction to the > meeting... > > I tried to use Cinelerra on Red Hat 9 a few months ago, and IIRC I > found that it would crash extremely easily. What distribution(s) do > you run it on, and how reliable do you find it? > > When producing my own videos, I've found that the only CODEC supported > by Adobe Premiere or Windows Movie Maker which produces good quality > at reasonable file sizes is Windows Media 9. Unfortunately, this > pretty much means that the resulting movie can't be played on Linux... > So two related questions to this one: > > 1. What CODECs does Cinelerra support, and how is the quality vs. > file size tradeoff? > > 2. Does anyone know what CODECs/settings to use in Premiere to produce > reasonably sized movies with good quality, which can also be played > on Linux? The best I've been able to manage is MPEG II at about > 24MB/m. Even at that size, there are noticable artifacts in both > the MPEG video and JPEG stills. They're not bad, but they're > noticable. AFAIAC, stills should be perfect quality (as good as > the original JPEG image)... > > FWIW, I use VideoLan Client for playback. It plays most MPEG movies > without problems, and I've even managed to play some quicktime and WMV > files with it. But only some of the CODECs are supported... > > If people know that there are other players with better CODEC support, > I'll certainly be interested to look at them. I keep meaning to check > out mplayer... But I had heard that mplayer was difficult to install. > Is that (still) true? _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss