[...] > > 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 -- Christian Brueffer chris_at_unixpages.org brueffer_at_FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D
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