Re: Recordings of Sam Lefler's talk last night available.

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 03:02:44 -0500
"Brian K. White" <brian_at_aljex.com> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <guru_at_Sisis.de>
> To: "Luigi Rizzo" <rizzo_at_icir.org>
> Cc: "Julian Elischer" <julian_at_elischer.org>; "Garance A Drosehn" 
> <gad_at_freebsd.org>; <current_at_freebsd.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 2:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Recordings of Sam Lefler's talk last night available.
> 
> 
> > El día Thursday, March 02, 2006 a las 11:23:40PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo 
> > escribió:
> >
> >> On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 06:51:14AM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 06:06:12PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >> > > Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > >At 11:09 AM -0800 3/2/06, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > >>There is a recording (in 2 parts) of Sam's talk on WIFI and
> >> > > >>FreeBSD from last night, at:
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >>http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/BAFUG/talks/WIFI/
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >>They are in quicktime format using Mpeg4 encoding.
> >> > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > >I enjoyed the chance to see the talk.  Very interesting and
> >> > > >informative (although I don't do much with wifi, so maybe I
> >> > > >am just unusually ignorant... :-).  Nice job. Thanks.
> >> > > >
> >> > > what did you use to view it? Others seem to have problems.
> >> > > I'd like to get a list on players that work..
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > mplayer worked perfectly.
> >>
> >> same her. only caveat, it only worked once i had the full file
> >> on the disk. for some reason, mplayer did not find the 'headers'
> >> while the transfer was in progress.
> >
> > mplayer
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/BAFUG/talks/WIFI/bafug3-sam1.mov
> >
> > works fine without problems from here (Munich)
> 
> For the record, mplayer on windows plays the original file fine too,
> but mplayer on windows is about the most inconvenient a program can
> get. After poring over the large html manual, I arrive finally at
> this whopper command:
> "C:\Program Files\mplayer\mplayer.exe" -osdlevel 3 -fs -monitoraspect
> 16:10 "C:\Documents and Settings\bkw\My Documents\My 
> Movies\freebsd\bafug3-sam1.mov"

There is a GUI version of mplayer for windows avaliable on the internet.
I dont have the exact URL but I know it's there since I installed it on
my gf's computer and used it myself.
Btw I thought FreeBSD users were using FreeBSD and that we did not
support Windows related problems on this mailing list...


Cheers,
Marcin