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astyle said:
The Ports Collection does include tools for dependency analysis. Those tools do allow you to see which ports actually depend on a given port. Same information can be found on the port's FreshPorts page. And offhand, I can say with confidence that there's no ports that depend specifically on having ffmpeg3/4, only plain ffmpeg. Please prove me technically incorrect here.

A reason to have ffmpeg3/4 installed is for obscure features not found in plain ffmpeg. But you'd have to be an A/V geek (with a deep understanding of how to use ffmpeg in command-line, and to have an appreciation of the difference in results produced by the legacy versions vs the plain, up-to-date version) to actually need it all. If he has the expertise (or wants to play with different versions), more power to him.

For compilation from source into a functional DE, ffmpeg3/4 is not technically essential. Plain ffmpeg is, though. Dependency analysis will show you that much.
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I'm not analyzing him, I'm opining on your casual way of demeaning someone because you assume you are smarter than them.

Valid reasons that you are dismissing:
1) One likes to hoard packages for the sake of it.
2) One likes to see the computer compile.
3) One feels lazy and executes a command that includes too much stuff but doesn't care.

I'm sure there are many more.
 
ffmpeg looked complex and I haven't used it directly :p I compiled StepMania with it, and iirc think ffmpeg or libs were useful for video playback or thumbnails.

I used HandBrake for video converting and stuff with subtitles.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
I'm not analyzing him, I'm opining on your casual way of demeaning someone because you assume you are smarter than them.

Valid reasons that you are dismissing:
1) One likes to hoard packages for the sake of it.
2) One likes to see the computer compile.
3) One feels lazy and executes a command that includes too much stuff but doesn't care.

I'm sure there are many more.
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Y'know, I take care to be technical here.

Providing technical reasons for not needing something is not considered demeaning at all, at least not on these Forums. Asking someone to stick to the topic of the conversation is NOT a rude thing to say at all.

Just because I have not mentioned certain reasons why someone wants legacy versions of stuff - that does NOT mean I'm casually demeaning the other person and dismissing the reason. I'm just trying to be concise and to the point of the conversation - which is supposedly a courtesy to the other person, y'know.

I sometimes end up with more softwares than I care for - that's the price of specifying too many Makefile knobs.

Besides, both me and Alain De Vos have been around these Forums for years longer than you, AlfredoLlaquet ... We do have a handle on how to talk to each other.
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astyle said:
Y'know, I take care to be technical here.

Providing technical reasons for not needing something is not considered demeaning at all, at least not on these Forums. Asking someone to stick to the topic of the conversation is NOT a rude thing to say at all.

Just because I have not mentioned certain reasons why someone wants legacy versions of stuff - that does NOT mean I'm casually demeaning the other person and dismissing the reason. I'm just trying to be concise and to the point of the conversation - which is supposedly a courtesy to the other person, y'know.

I sometimes end up with more softwares than I care for - that's the price of specifying too many Makefile knobs.

Besides, both me and Alain De Vos have been around these Forums for years longer than you, AlfredoLlaquet ... We do have a handle on how to talk to each other.
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Saying "Did you notice that others are labeled as "Legacy"? Ever wonder why?" has nothing to do with all those convoluted reasons.

Edit: It's better to say, "Why do you have also the legacy packages?" That is not belittling.

I'm out of this conversation.

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Indifference-ninja said:
So I have another update; due to some unforeseen circumstances I'm not sure when I'll be able to get a monitor cord now.
However I will still be lurking around until then.
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So apparently the tower needs a 9 pin female but the monitor needs a 15 pin male cable, and I bought a 15 pin male-male cord, ugh!
Well at least I also got a 32 gb USB stick to put freebsd on.
 
Alain De Vos said:
My personal problem is converting videos towards an audio-codec my DVD driver understands. With never videos always fail ...
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I never watch videos directly from DVD - too much annoying garbage ("features") If I want to see a movie I want to see that movie, and no animated menus, especially nothing of all this "extra" and "making of" BS. ("producer's commentary" - does anybody actually watch those?)
What I do is a full BU to storage drive with dvdbackup first - depending on the DVD this lasts between several minutes up to some hours. After that I use handbrake (there are for sure other/better solutions, but I'm used to it, and it's easy to use) to create a .m4v-videofile from it - easy to select which audio tracks (language) I want to have. I never had any problems with languages/audio so far.

cracauer@ said:
I spent 3 months nose down with ffmpeg correcting the green tint on the original Fellowship of the Ring Blu-Ray.
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I never got any BD running on FreeBSD. AFAIK it's all about the right keys.
Can you link to some working How-to, describe what's needed (you done) to get BDs running, or at least point me into the right direction?
Thanks.
 
Maturin said:
BD
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Just because I'm curious, I searched the internet and it turns out that this page of the foundation names playing a Bluray disk as if it were something simple (search "bluray" on the page). I guess they are wrong. I never tried myself. I never had a Bluray player.

Video Playback on FreeBSD – Quick Guide | FreeBSD Foundation

In this guide, we'll use the xine video player to set up basic video playback on a fresh FreeBSD install. The xine multimedia player relies on the XWindow system and the XVideo extension to provide a graphical video playback interface. System Requirements: Xorg supports a wide variety of video...
freebsdfoundation.org freebsdfoundation.org
 
Maturin said:
If I want to see a movie I want to see that movie, and no animated menus, especially nothing of all this "extra" and "making of" BS. ("producer's commentary" - does anybody actually watch those?)
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I acquired some stuff that included extras like that (would be a surprise when one played on a random shuffle :p), I find em cool to see at times! I was surprised to see Shredder's voice actor for 1987 TMNT and it was cool to hear about him for a few minutes.

I'm not sure I'd intentionally watch those extras though; they're just cool when mixed in with other videos :p
AlfredoLlaquet said:
I never had a Bluray player.
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I had a few PS3s but never played a blu-ray movie from disc :p

I got a random player that had an Ethernet port and a Java logo on it; iirc quick searching didn't show anything interesting like running Linux on it so I didn't plug it in. It looked technically cool but I'd buy a PS3 before internet-connecting a random box :p
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
Just because I'm curious, I searched the internet and it turns
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Believe me, I also did myself. I'm not the guy too lazy to read any docu, search the net etc. for myself, but directly post into the forums to get a "how-to-for-fools." Before I ask any question here, I did, or at least tried some things by myself.
BDs are kind of tricky. I normally prefer DVDs.
For all the stuff until the late 1990s they are fully sufficient. I see no benefit in watching e.g. "Kojak" in HD. Those stage designs were build for the resolution they had back then. Having it rendered up to HD you don't be in a police office anymore, but being focused on all the flaws of a cheap set all the time, missing the acting, the dialogs, and the plot - missing the point. There was a time when all this counted, and not the special effects of excessive action scenes.
But for some modern things BDs are the choice. Besides you also need hardware with some power, it's a larger jungle you're in than just dealing with some DVD region codes. While of course there are players [in]capable of playing BDs, the player itself ain't the crucial point (vlc, mpv and many others are also capable to play BDs), the keys are the point.
cracauer@ said:
makemkv
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Thanks! I also once found this was the way to go, but never gave it an actual real try.
Now I will try follow this trace.
Thanks.
 
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