Another reason to like FreeBSD

clayton rollins crollins666 at hotmail.com
Tue May 6 17:58:27 PDT 2003



>On 7 May 2003 00:06:02 Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl at buz.ch> wrote:
>
>Hello clayton,
>
>Tuesday, May 6, 2003, 11:45:33 PM, clayton <crollins666 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I have to agree. MPlayer is definitely a trick little piece of software
> > (once you RTFM a few times), and with proper codecs can play almost any
> > video. (It doesn't play nice with artsd for some reason I have yet to 
>figure > out, and has caused about 5 total lockups in 6 months, but, beyond 
>being a
> > little buggy, I really like it.)
>
>Mhh I didn't have to RTFM. Worked for me out of ports ;-)
>

See what happens when you use the ports system. (lol!)

I forgot, that's one of the ones where I decided to circumvent ports, to 
keep on the bleeding edge. (That should also be applied to what I said about 
mild bugs in the code; it's not the stable release I'm supposed to be 
using.)

Peace,
Clayton

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