The problem I have with mplayer at the moment is with some windows media playing the sound lagged by about 2 seconds.  I can watch the videos but the sound is out of sync.  Ah well, at least it kinda works. :)

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:00, edward@murrell.co.nz wrote: 
Funny, I use debian as well, but I've always had issues getting mplayer to
behave intelligently. It works, but I end up with this weird thing where
it will refuse to fullscreen. I've managed to get to work a few times, but
it's not as simple as say, just apt-get install xine-ui totem w32codecs,
which seem to have intelligent defaults for controls, and handle any file
I throw at it (short of real player crap).
Although to be fair, if you don't grab the w32codecs deb package (it's
somewhere on apt-get.org) pretty much nothing works. I think there's also
something you have to run for DVDs to play properly... but I don't have a
DVD player, so I can't really comment.

> Distribution:      debian
> Instant Messaging: none -> sTeam
> Movie players:     mplayer (works always) (never seen xine working)
> (the office is the place where you have all the tools you need to do
> your office work. all i need is a terminal running ssh (putty if
> necessary) and a network-connection, add a browser and my office is
> complete)
>

Another app/server I've started using is TeamSpeak.  It is really good voice chat server for use when playing Battlefield 1942 (or other online games).  You could also use it for conference calls I guess.  It's not OpenSource unfortunately.  But it is available as Windows & Linux client/server.  It's written in Kylix/Delphi so it has a QT GUI and the server is admin'd via HTTP.  It uses a number of different codecs.  Including the OpenSource Speex codec which seems to be the best at low bandwidths.

> http://pike.ida.liu.se/conferences/2003/ --
> interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen
> training,       sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration

Pike is an interesting language.  Didn't it grow out of LPC (used to create MudOS + Nightmare MUDlib)?

Regards 




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