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Re: QuickTime player for Debian?



A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Joachim Trinkwitz (jtr@uni-bonn.de) wrote:
> 
> > Did you try xanim-modules in potato (it's an online-installer for
> > non-free modules which are not part of the core xanim)?
> 
> Yes I tried xanim and xanim-modules, but it says: 
> 
> $ xanim sample.mov
> XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C) 1991-1999. All Rights
> Reserved
>   Video Codec: Sorenson Video not yet supported.(E18)
>   Audio Codec: QDesign Music Codec (QDMC) not yet supported.
>   Notice: Video and Audio are present, but not yet supported.
> Usage:
>    XAnim [options] anim [ [options] anim ... ]
>    -h  lists some common options, but may be out of date.
>    See xanim.readme or the man page for detailed help.

That means you're not going to view this movie without Windows or a Mac
anytime soon.  It uses the Sorenson video codec; it's authors have been
uncooperative wrt support outside of helping Apple with it.  Anything else
is 200% out of the question (iirc).

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch@creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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