[plug] Mpeg Video

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Mon Oct 18 18:59:18 WST 1999


[Brad Campbell]
> Anyone have any tips on a reasonable mpeg video viewer for X11?

[Tom Atkinson]
> I have one called "mpeg_play".  It does the job admirably, at least
> for every mpeg I have tried it on.  Some details:

You should have a look at MPEG TV or SMPEG.  The first one is
commersial, and the next one open source.  MPEG TV handles VideoCD as
well.  Both are much better then both xanim and mpeg_play.  The two
last either skips most frames and/or plays the video using wrong
speed.

Demo/source:
  ftp://ftp.mpegtv.com/pub/mpeg/mpegtv/player/
  http://www.lokigames.com/development/smpeg.php3
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