[ILUG] ASF ?

[John P. Looney]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:17:46PM +0100, Mel mentioned:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, John P. Looney wrote:
> >  I assume there is no way of playing ASF format files yet ?
> I have been using avifile (http://divx.euro.ru/) quiet successfully for a
> long time. It is very stable, plays full screen (if SDL is available) and
> plays literally 99% of all asf's and avi's I came across. The other 1%,
> Windows couldnt plays either ;)

 Sound. Xine didn't have any success.

> It uses a very cut down version of winelib to load the revelant windows
> DLL's and chugs along. Downside is that it takes a while to start up and
> can be a bit heavy on CPU usage at times. A PII 350 still will play files
> reliably though so it is no problem

 It's not exactly a fast download site either.

Kate

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