[wplug] let's get technical and see if anyone is as smart as they think they are

Chester R. Hosey Chester.Hosey at gianteagle.com
Thu Jun 2 13:35:30 EDT 2005


> if I 
> # cat file.avi | mplayer - 
> or
> # strace mplayer file.avi
> 
> then the content is displayed, but mplayer itself will
> not directly display the content.  asking this on the
> mplayer mailing list was useless as most of the
> questions on there are of a technical level like "what
> encoder option do I use to make dvd format video?"
> 
> I have a few thoughts but does anyone have any
> experience with cfs or mplayer that would be helpful?

Obligatory stupid question from the peanut gallery:

Have you tried this from a non-CFS partition? Can you verify the data
before it gets written to CFS?

If you don't have any samples you're comfortable committing to non-CFS
hard storage, you might try a RAM drive for some testing instead.

Other than that, I don't do media, and I let my data remain unencrypted
except the occasional GPG use for email so I'll have to defer to the
suggestions of others.

Chet Hosey


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