[MPlayer-users] An interesting note on QuickTime w/o wine

[gabor]

On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 02:47, Stephen Stocker wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>   I may be behind on this, but I decided to try something crazy and
> stuffed the QuickTime.qts and qtmlClient.dll files in the win32 directory,
> then compiled mplayer normally.
> 
>   It's probably not stable, but it *did* work, amidst a bunch of warnings
> about the codec being uninitialized. I tried reencoding with "-ovc lavc
> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac mp3lame", which ran for a second or so before
> segfaulting. Tried it with "-oac pcm" and it worked perfectly. Again, I
> don't recommend this unless you're either brave or crazy, but apparently
> the QuickTime codec is very close to being stable for the standard
> non-wine mplayer/mencoder. :) Thanks all!

actually it works now without wine....

so you normally put the quicktime dlls in $PREFIX/lib/win32,
and user ./configure --enable-qtx-codecs....


and it works...

i've just reencoded the-two-towers.mov into a normal mp3/mpeg4 avi
file.. with -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc and it worked...

bye,
gabor

> 
> 	Take care,
> 	Steve
> 
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