[MPlayer-dev-eng] Quicktime. Wrong search path for codecs on Linux

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 05:33:46PM +0100, Stefano wrote:
> ProRes works fine for me under Windows but I can't play it under Linux. I
> compiled the mplayer-checkout-2010-07-22.

That should be recent enough.

> I've read in etc/codecs.conf that the dll AppleProResDecoder.qtx (that I
> added to the codecs' folder) should be called, but actually mplayer calls
> qtmlClient.dll (on Windows, and it works) and QuickTime.qts on Linux (and it
> crashes).

You need both. The question is where your qtmlClient.dll and QuickTime.qts
comes from -- it's usually a separate QT codecs package. MPlayer does not
support all QT codecs packages.

> It would be really great if I could play ProRes on Linux but until now no
> luck. if you can suggest something let me know.

I joined MPlayer development specifically to make ProRes work on Linux, so
it's definitely worked at some point, at least =)

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