I bought a license for MpegTV.
It's only $10.
It's good enough.
(though windoze playback better at bigger windows)
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>Subject: Re: [plug] How do I play VCD's in my linux box?
>Date: 09/03/2000 12:14 PM
>From: Cito Maramba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group Mailing List"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000 at 02:17, Rafael R. Sevilla wrote:
>> >Unless you want to cough up extra money, it cuts sound
off your movie
>> >after five minutes.
>>
>> I don't know if this is only for my particular copy
(hehehe). My copy of
>> MpegTV was installed via mtv-1.1.4-1.i386.rpm, packaged
by Tristan
>> Savatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as declared by the Packager
field. Playing
>> videos via the GUI controller 'mtv' has a five minute
audio limit.
>> However, playing the videos via command-line driven app
'mtvp' has
>> unlimited audio and no prompt saying you're running an
unlicensed program.
>> The mtv.1 manpage that comes with the package has details
about the
>> parameters to pass to the programs (works for both apps).
>>
>
>If anyone bothers to read the README* files that come with
mpegtv it
>explicity says theat mtv is shareware and needs to be
registered for full
>functionality and that mtvp is fully functional without
need for
>registration.
>Of course, mtvp lacks the graphical interface that allows
you to fast
>forward and rewind, which you can do with mtv.
>So everyone's mtvp will play the full audio without cutting
out in five
>minutes. THere's nothing special about the .rpm that jijo
downloaded.
>
>Cito Maramba, M.D.
>Asst. Professor
>Medical Informatics Unit
>UP College of Medicine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
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