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Subject: -6- I need to play MPEG movies. Does SGI offer MPEG
support?
Date: 4 Nov 1998 00:00:01 MST
Again, the answer to this depends on the IRIX system release
that you have.
- In all releases of IRIX up to and including IRIX 5.3,
the SGI movieplayer does not support MPEG movies.
- If you use IRIX 5.3 with the Digital Media Tools 5.5
software product or IRIX 6.2, the SGI movieplayer
supports MPEG-1 movies.
You can also create MPEG movies using the dmconvert or
Movie Master (mediaconvert) tools. See the first question
in this FAQ for information on downloading the Digital
Media Tools 5.5 software product from SGI.
For free, you have several options:
1) You can use the Berkeley mpeg_play. You can get the file
mpeg_play.Z by anonymous ftp from
ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/pub/Mosaic/mpeg_play.Z
2) A Motif-based MPEG player is available via these URLs:
http://www.geom.umn.edu/software/download/mpeg_play.html
ftp://geom.umn.edu/priv/daeron/src/mpeg_play-src.tar.Z
3) An MPEG player from Greg Ward <greg@bic.mni.mcgill.ca>, who
writes:
glmpeg_play is a feature-rich, GUI-poor player for MPEG-1 video
streams for SGI workstations. It supports memory or disk buffering,
zooming by pixel doubling/tripling/ whatever, pause, single step
forward or backward, continuous play, continuous back-and-forth play,
and a few other obscure features. It is entirely controllable
through the keyboard, and most features are also accessible via
pop-up menu. No pretty buttons, though. Playback status is
available through a rather ugly (but informative) text window.
glmpeg_play is available from
ftp://ftp.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pub/mpeg
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