favorite mpeg players

Edward Vielmetti (emv@garnet.msen.com)
Thu, 19 Aug 1993 14:41:59 -0400


I'm using "mpeg_play" to display my mpeg movies. (Just tried the
3d rotating skulls from NCSA, pretty snappy.) It seems to work,
tho it's real minimalist as a viewer.

If anyone has a "nice" mpeg viewer, e.g. one that lets you do
- single step or freeze frame
- looping and reverse
- save individual images to files
- anything else you might reasonably expect from a low priced VCR
I'd like to hear about it.

In the interim, for people on middlingly slow lines, it would be good
to have the default command executed be not
mpeg_play
but mpeg_play -loop
so that you at least get a chance to keep the thing around once you
have spent the time downloading it.

Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 4562 (fax: 998 4563)