Dump Crossover (for a better video system with linux)

[Dustin Mollo]

That's great.  So now we've gone from being called operating system snobs to
Linux distribution snobs.  What an improvement!

Sheesh...

>From looking at the source files
(http://perso.wanadoo.fr/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/) and the main
homepage (http://marillat.free.fr/), it looks as though this person has
taken the original programs and made some tweaks and then made debian
packages.  Seems like (s)he should make some instructions on how non-debian
folks could get the same results.

*sigh*

-Dustin


On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:40:40PM -0800, error wrote:
> So how many of you want to watch quicktime 6 movies?
> How about divx?
> Want to watch those avi files?
> 
> How many of you want to watch basically every movie format out there?
> How many of you want to back up your dvds and encode them to any (well
> all most) other format?
> 
> How many of you want to do it for free and do it in linux?
> 
> 
> As ripped from the apt-cache show:
> The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
> It plays most mpeg, avi and asf files, supported by many native and
> win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and even DivX movies too. The
> another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of supported output
> drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, but you can
> use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL) and some lowlevel
> card-specific drivers (for Matrox/3dfx/SiS) too! Most of them supports
> software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen.
> 
> So assuming that this something your interested in and you run debian...
> 
> Here is a great quicktime test movie:
> http://www.asu.net/bsh/union.mov
> 
> First add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main
> deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main
> 
> Or follow the instructions on his site that say:
> 
> deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main
> deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main
> deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main
> deb-src http://perso.wanadoo.fr/debian/ unstable main
> 
> I personally use his testing and unstable.
> 
> Then do:
> 
> apt-get update
> 
> Now install these packages for the best media box around:
> 
> apt-get install mplayer-686 mplayer-doc mplayer-fonts qt6codecs
> avifile-win32-plugin faad libdivxencore0 libdvdcss0 w32codecs
> 
> Now say you want to rip dvds and encode them with as many options as
> possible?
> 
> apt-get install video-dvdrip subtitleripper
> 
> With mplayer you will be able to play these files better than with xine.
> 
> Also with mplayer comes gmplayer the graphical version of mplayer,
> useful and pretty polished in comparison 
> 
> mplayer can be used in a framebuffer to watch movies on your console :)
> 
> So if you use fb-dev you don't even need X for movies!
> 
> So who needs crossover for movies anymore? Not you :)
> 
> Other cool packages are:
> lame-extras realplayer zapping
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> (p.s. Christian Marillat <marillat at debian.org> is a bad ass!)
> 
> 
> -- 
> error <error at sonic.net>