OT: Really Big Jacobs-Ladders

[David Holland]

Linux & MPlayer?

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

Not certain of its multi-platform compatability, as I don't think I've
bothered trying anything besides Linux w/ it.

David

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, der Mouse wrote:

> > MPEGs of a pair of pretty spectacular, somewhat-unintentional,
> > power-line Jacobs Ladders [...]
> >      http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm
> 
> Unfortunately the two long-arc mpegs just produce
> 
> Unexpected startcode 00000000 in system layer
> 
> when thrown at my mpeg player.
> 
> I went looking for updates to the software I use, and it doesn't appear
> there are any; the readme webpage shows a date of "July 19, 1996".
> 
> Anyone know of an open-source mpeg player that doesn't require
> installing the kitchen sink and yet is reasonably up-to-date?  (I found
> something called VLC, which looked good, until I saw that it required
> libdvdcss, libdvdplay, libdvdread, libdvbpsi, mpeg2dec, a52dec, ffmpeg,
> faad2, libmad, lame, libid3tag, libogg, libvorbis, libtheora, flac,
> openslp, fribidi, live, gettext, libiconf, freetype, libebml,
> libmatroska, wxWindows, zlib, libpng, libxml2, and libmodplug - most of
> which are completely irrelevant for what I want!  I don't care about
> doing anything with DVDs.  I don't care about font rendering or
> non-Latin-1 language support.  I don't care about encoding.  I care
> about GUIs, but negatively - I actively don't want a GUI.  I don't want
> a program that tries to do everything, even for small values of
> "everything".  I want a program that does one well-contained task well:
> unpacking MPEGs into video frames.  Doing audio data would be a plus.)
> 
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