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Re: QuickTime for Linux?



On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:26:57PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> Bijan Soleymani declaimed:
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:34:02PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> > > I'm running Debian/Sarge. Bummed that I can't watch those funny MoveOn
> > > political ads. Help? Other streaming video works fine.
> > 
> > Mplayer can play quicktime files (with the approriate plugin).
> > Check out their homepage:
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu
> > 
> > Technical/legal/packaging/various other reasons prevent Debian
> > from shipping mplayer, but there are some precompiled debs out
> > there if you don't feel like compiling from source.
> > 
> > Bijan
> Thanks very much. I use mplayer, managed to compile it but not the gui
> package, struggling with optimization. DVD's play tolerably but with
> some stutter at peak load (Celeron Coppermine/600MHz/512MB/AGP Matrox
> G400 w/16 MB -- advice appreciated off list). Downloading codecs now.
> 

You can get mplayer deb (also optimized) using the following line in
sources.list
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main


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