MPEG-FAQ 4.1:

Xmplay

[ Here it is !! The first, fully-featured MPEG-player with X11-interface. ]
[ XMPLAY exists currently in Version 1.0, patches are available. The next ]
[ Version 1.1 is currently in development. Thats the announcement !       ]

            XMPLAY [Version 1.1] - Sun Apr 10 14:51:22 MDT 1994

      This distribution is the result of a project worked out at the
      Technical University (TU) Berlin, held in Winter 93/94 by
      Tom Pfeifer. The basic idea is created by Frank Gadegast,
      the programing work was then done by Juergen Meyer, Metin
      Cetinkaya and Frank Gadegast.

This software is ftp-able from:

http://www.mpeg1.de                        ]          ]

[ Just to remember .gz means, its compressed using GNU's zip, called ]
[ gzip. Use gunzip to uncompress.                                    ]


XMPLAY [Version 1.1]

 

XMPLAY is a very nice directory-browser under X11 to use XMPEG,
the interactive X11-MPEG-player.

MPEG is a video-format described by the ISO-standard ISO CD11172.
This implementation here can handle MPEG-stream written down
at the MPEG-group-meeting in Paris '92. It can handle IPB-frames
but no system- nor audio-information.

 

Additional you get a little utility called MPEGINFO, showing you, if called
with the filename of a MPEG-file the most important parameter it can read
dirrectly from its header, like size, picture rate or frame-style.

It should work under nearly every system, 'cause it's programed without
MOTIF, the X11-Toolit or other stupid things, that are always causing
problems. It only needs the X11-library, no matter if you're using
Release 3, 4 or Release 5.

In addition it has lots of defines to let it run under BSD, SYSV, ISC,
Solaris, SunOS, A/UX, SCO or XENIX and you don't have to hack a difficult
Imake- or Makefile and you will not have trouble with build-in pathnames !!!

It's specially made for those systems, that don't have super hardware
or that have problems with the Toolkit or MOTIF.


XMPEG [Version 1.1]

 

XMPEG is a MPEG-video-player based on the MPEG-widget-implementation
from Jim Frost and the MPEG-movie-player "mpeg_play" from the Portable
Video Research Group at Berkeley.

It just adds a few buttons and is normally getting called
from XMPLAY, but can be used as stand-alone to include into other
programs. Its programmed with the same methods than XMPLAY.

 


You can download XMPLAY from http://www.mpeg1.de/xmplay.html.                       ]          ]

If you get problems (not really possible) to compile it or if you have
comments send them to the authors, reachable at:

        phade@powerweb.de (responsible for compiling and X11)
        jm@cs.tu-berlin.de (responsible for the mpeg-code) or
        brain@cs.tu-berlin.de