[MPlayer-users] No sound for quicktime

[GS Hunt]

Your  problem perhaps is you don't have the newest Quicktime dlls downloaded??

This following is the codec you should have for the .mov you mentioned..


Name: Fat Albert
 Info: Coming Soon
 Copyright: ©2004 20th Century Fox. All rights reserved
.............
Selected audio codec: [qdmc] afm:qtaudio (Quicktime QDMC/QDM2 audio decoders)


Gary





On October 24, 2004 10:53 am, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> Robert,
>
> Try reading the following thread and see if any of the information in it is
> useful. It is debugging of noaudio of media on the apple.com/trailers site.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5754274&forum_id=218
>00
>
> Kevin
>
> On Saturday 23 October 2004 08:07 pm, Robert Mark Bram wrote:
> > Hi All!
> >
> > I have
> > - RH 9
> > - "MPlayer 1.0pre2-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team" as an rpm downloaded
> > through synaptic
> > - MPlayer codecs essential-20040922.tar installed at /usr/lib/win32 and a
> > copy at /usr/local/lib/win32
> > - Opera 7.23.
> > - I compiled and used mplayerplug-in-2.70.tar.gz to plugin MPlayer to
> > Opera according to these instructions:
> > http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/faq.php
> > ./configure --enable-x  [--with-gecko-sdk={path} ]
> > make
> > cp mplayerplug-in.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins
> > ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/libxpcom.so /usr/lib
> >
> > When I play a quicktime stream from apple.com:
> > http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/fat_albert/FA_trailer_large.html
> > I get no sound..
> >
> > But when I play an mpg from the command line, I do get sound.
> >
> > On that FAQ page it says "If the trailer plays but there is no sound,
> > this can be caused by mplayer not being compiled with FAAD
> > support. FAAD is the AC3 decoder that is needed to decode the audio in
> > some quicktime files" But could this be the case if I got
> > MPlayer from an RPM? How can I check if FAAD support is inbuilt?
> >
> > Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > :)