[ale] SMPEG question

[James Sumners]

i recommend mplayer. it will play almost ANYTHING

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:01:13 -0500 (EST)
John Mills <jmmills at telocity.com> wrote:

> Hello -
> 
> I wanted to view an MPEG clip on a RH-6.2-derived setup, so I found rpms
> for SDL-1.2.5-1 and smpeg-0.4.4-1 and their associated '-devel' versions,
> all of which installed without a whimper. I then unpacked the source for
> enjoympeg-0.4.1 which similarly built and installed without complaint.
> 
> I was not so fortunate when I tried to run 'enjoympeg':
>  1) the program whined that it couldn't find '/dev/dsp' -- not surprising,
>     as my system is DSP-challenged, then
>  2) it refused to open the target clip because it failed to identify the
>     file as a suitable MPEG stream data, though 'file' identifies it
>     correctly as that type.
> 
> At that point I downloaded 'mtvp' which played the clip just fine, thank
> you.
> 
> Should I have some type of DSP hardware to play such a clip, or was that
> message on account of my not having a sound card installed?
> 
> Any ideas what's missing here?
> 
> TIA
>  - John Mills
> 
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