Re: [linux-audio-user] audio/video player for theatre use anyone?

From: Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@email-addr-hidden-hochschule.de>
Date: Fri Mar 02 2007 - 19:37:31 EET

Lee Revell wrote:
> On 3/1/07, Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@email-addr-hidden-hochschule.de> wrote:
>> * does not ever crash ;)
>
> I've never seen a media player for any OS that never crashes (other
> than the one built into a Tivo). mplayer is the closest I have seen.
> I guess if you only need to support a single format like MPEG4 it
> could be made reliable. But all bets are off if you need to support
> proprietary codecs.

as i said, it's absolutely not a problem if it supported only one or two
open, well-documented and generally sane video codecs. the most
important thing (i think) is the pre-buffering feature - tacking a nice
"instant play" user interface on a playlist-driven player wouldn't be
hard, but i don't know of any existing players that do buffering...
Received on Fri Mar 2 20:15:05 2007

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