[MPlayer-users] Quicktime video doesn't play

[Jack Smith]

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.
> >
> > You need to rebuild mplayer with either the codecs in the directory
> > 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.
> >
> > Good Luck
> > Jeremy
>
> OK, I'm off to learn how to install mplayer (it just came with
> Redhat).  If anyone cares to try the file that's messing me up, it's
> attached.
> Thanks,
> Jack

It isn't attached, it was too big.  It is at
http://www.fast-forward.tv/blog/ if you want to download it.

Jack
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