Xine plays nicely quicktime movies including Sorenson encoded one since the last release 0.11. This release is already in unstable. Christophe On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 02:03:44PM -0400, Harold Bibik wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:20:20PM -0400, stan wrote something like this: > > > I was tyring to look at a site refernced from Slashdot, that needs a > > quicktime plugin. I'm using Galeon, so I folowed the "download plugin" > > link. Yhis took me to this site: > > > > http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html > > > > I downloaded the tar file & rna make install as root, but, when I wnet to > > the test page it still claimed to have no plugin for quicktime. > > > > How should I make this work with mt "testing" system? Or is there a better > > Debian way to deal with quicktime? > > Plugger is just a wrapper that calls other programs to handle the > multimedia stuff...so you'll need to have a working version of Xanim > or mplayer or one of the others installed to have plugger working. > > The problem is that there is no Linux program to view quicktime > movies...due to Apple licensing, etc... > > I have come across something called OpenQuicktime, but know nothing > about it > > http://openquicktime.sourceforge.net/ > > > I've used and am using Crossover Plugin which lets you install > windows versions of the Quicktime viewer, RealPlayer and Windows > Media Player (and a lot more). It uses Wine to fool the windows stuff > into thinking it's actually running under Windows. It's very easy to > install. The Crossover Plugin you will need to purchase though > there is a demo version available at: > > http://www.codeweavers.com > > I'm not sure that's "the debian" way but it allows me to view the odd > quicktime or windows media file under linux. > > > > -- > "Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product." > - Ferenc Mantfeld > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Harold Bibik hwbj@twcny.rr.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
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