[MPlayer-users] [MP-users] Quicktime video doesn't play

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On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jack Smith wrote:

> On 8/31/07, Jack Smith <jack.delbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/31/07, Jack Smith <jack.delbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 8/31/07, Jeremy Hansen <jebrhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > My first thought was that I might be missing the Quicktime codec even
> > > > > though I saw the line
> > > > > Selected video codec: [ffrpza] vfm: ffmpeg (QuickTime Apple Video)
> > > > > so I downloaded Linux AMD64 20062003, untarred it and read the README
> > > > > file.  Didn't know how to tell where to put them so I tried
> > > > > /usr/local/lib/codecs, /usr/lib/codecs, /usr/lib/win32 and even
> > > > > /usr/lib64/codecs.  Reran mplayer and got the same result.
> > > > mentioned in the README or specify where they are at. The ffrpza codec
> > > > is one that is included with ffmpeg so it doesn't always do as well as
> > > > the binary.
> > > >
> > > > It might also help to have a sample file for others to test it with.

Perhaps this can help both the viewer and the developers:
xine played it for me.  Usually mplayers plays more things
than xine. :)

Cheers,

Mihai