tlug: application for .avi files

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "David" == D A Walter <warrior@example.com> writes:

    David> Can anybody recommend a good linux app for viewing .avi and
    David> .qt files?

I don't know how to judge "good" but xanim does both (from the man
page for xanim 2.70.6.4 (available in .deb, some very recent version
is available in .rpm).  There are a number of others, but xanim seems
to be the one I see referred to in mimecap files most.

http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/home.html
http://smurfland.cit.buffalo.edu/xanim/home.html
http://www.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/xanim/

DESCRIPTION
       XAnim  is a program that can display animation/video/audio
       files of various formats on systems  running  X11.   XAnim
       currently supports the following animation types:

              +  FLI animations.
              +  FLC animations.
              +  IFF  animations. The following features are supported:
                   -> Compressions 3,5,7,J(movies) and l(small L).
                   -> Color cycling during single images and anims.
                   -> Display Modes: depth 1-8, EHB, HAM and HAM8.
              +  GIF87a and GIF89a files.
                   -> single and multiple images supported.
                   -> GIF89a animation extensions supported.
              +  GIF89a animation extension support.
              +  a  kludgy  text file listing gifs and what order
                 to show them in.
              +  DL animations. Formats 1, 2 and partial 3.
              +  Amiga PFX(PageFlipper Plus F/X) animations. TEMP
                 DISABLED
              +  Amiga   MovieSetter  animations(For  those  Eric
                 Schwartz fans).
              +  Utah Raster Toolkit RLE images and anims.
              +  AVI animations. Currently supported are
                   -> IBM Ultimotion     (ULTI) depth 16.
                   -> JPEG               (JPEG) depth 24.
                   -> Motion JPEG        (MJPG) depth 24.
                   -> Intergraph JPEG    (IJPG) depth 24.
                   -> Microsoft Video 1  (CRAM) depth 8 and 16.
                   -> Radius Cinepak     (CVID) depth 24. (see NOTE 1)
                   -> Intel Indeo 3.1    (IV31) depth 24. (see NOTE 2)
                   -> Intel Indeo 3.2    (IV32) depth 24. (see NOTE 2)
                   -> Intel Raw YUV      (YUV9) depth 24. (see NOTE 2)
                   -> Creative CYUV      (CYUV) depth 16. (see NOTE 3)
                   -> Uncompressed       (RGB ) depth 4.
                   -> Uncompressed       (RGB ) depth 8.
                   -> Uncompressed       (RGB ) depth 16.
                   -> Uncompressed       (RGB ) depth 24.
                   -> Run length encoded (RLE8) depth 8.
                   -> Editable MPEG      (XMPG) depth 24.
              +  Quicktime Animations. The following features are
                 supported:
                   -> Uncompressed     (RAW ) depth 1,4,8,16,24 and 24+
                   -> Uncompressed     (RAW ) Gray depth 1,4 and 8.
                   -> Apple Graphics   (RLE ) depth 1,8,16 and 24.
                   -> Apple Graphics   (RLE ) GRAY depth 8.
                   -> Apple Animation  (SMC ) depth 8 and GRAY 8.
                   -> Apple Video      (RPZA) depth 16.
                   -> Radius Cinepak   (CVID) depth 24. (see NOTE 1)
                   -> Radius Cinepak   (CVID) GRAY   8. (see NOTE 1)
                   -> Intel Indeo 3.1  (IV31) depth 24. (see NOTE 2)
                   -> Intel Indeo 3.2  (IV32) depth 24. (see NOTE 2)
                   -> Intel Raw YUV    (YUV9) depth 24. (see NOTE 2)
                   -> Component Video  (YUV2) depth 24.
                   -> Photo JPEG       (JPEG) depth 8 and 24.
                   -> Kodak Photo CD   (KPCD) depth 24.
                   -> Microsoft Video 1  (CRAM) depth 8 and 16.
                   -> Supports multiple video trak's.
                   -> Supports animations with multiple codecs.
                   -> Supports merged and separated resource forks.
              +  JFIF images. NOTE: use  XV  for  single  images.
                 This is more for animation of a sequence of JPEG
                 images.
              +  MPEG animations. Currently only  Type  I  Frames
                 are displayed. Type B and Type P frames are cur-
                 rently ignored, but  will  be  added  in  future
                 revs.
              +  WAV  audio  files  may have their sound added to
                 any animation type  that  doesn't  already  have
                 audio,  by  specifying  the  .wav file after the
                 animation file on the command line.
              +  AU audio files may have their sound added to any
                 animation  type that doesn't already have audio,
                 by specifying the .wav file after the  animation
                 file on the command line.
              +  any combination of the above on the same command
                 line.
              NOTE_1:
                 Please read the "cinepak.readme" file for direc-
                 tions on adding Radius Cinepak support to XAnim.
              NOTE_2:
                 Please read the "indeo.readme" file  for  direc-
                 tions  on adding Intel Indeo 3.1 and 3.2 support
                 to XAnim.
              NOTE_3:
                 Please  read  the  "creative.readme"  file   for
                 directions  on  adding  Creative Technology CYUV
                 support to XAnim.


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