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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: Doctor V on 11 November 2002, 07:03
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Everyone say happy birthday to MPlayer! It turned 2 today. Oh, and the latest version, 0.90pre10 has been released today as well:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/)
V
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Yes and they have included sorenson v3 support into the player (in development but still..) Hooray for Mplayer and shame on apple for not supporting linux, xbsd etc. what it comes to quicktime. :D
[ November 14, 2002: Message edited by: SingleMalt ]
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Originally posted by SingleMalt:
and shame on apple for not supporting linux, xbsd etc. what it comes to quicktime.
Damn straight. But it does not support QT yet, without a fair amount of hacking. A problem I coincidentally ran into the other day. Is there a player anywhere that supports QT on Linux?
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What are you talking about? MPlayer has supported QuickTime movies for a long time now. Just not the latest Sorensen. I just did a search for QuickTime movies on google and every Quicktime movie I tried worked without a problem.
[ November 18, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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might be another cock-up by yours truly. Will search it out and try tonight.
My mistake may be that I construed Soronsen to mean all QT movies, hell yesterday was a busy day, and I only had 5 mins to get what I was trying to do done.
other than that it looked like a nice player.
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It's the best. It plays more formats than any other player that I know of with the exception of the very latest Sorensen format (it plays the earlier ones fine). The only movies I have seen that used that new format were the Movie Trailers that were on Apple's web site. But I am sure there are more. There are very few Sorensen v3 clips out there from my experience. You have to have the win32 codec package installed in /usr/lib/win32 though (the codecs are on the MPlayer web site right next to the MPlayer download.
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Yeah. I was looking at the site, and I am thinking to myself, people are giving this almost rave reviews. It purports to support a huge number of codecs, so why would it not have support for Quicktime, after all it supports all the major formats.
So I think I will blame a moment of stupidity, I usually spot things like this straight off. I will see tonight, and then I can show the G/F the video trailer she wants to see, she is wavering on the conversion I have forced her through to Linux. Must prove point.
I have been meaning to get this program installed for a while, after your recommendation of Ogle for DVDs I was well impressed I can tell you.
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I mentioned that the Movie trailers might be v3 Sorensen, if so, you'll still be out of luck. Do you have a link to one that you might want to view so I can try it?
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This is the UK version of the site, the US version offers asf ***spit***, which if I am not mistaken is basically a WiMP format.
wallace and gromit (http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/spotlights/wallacegromit/)
I don't think it will be a problem.
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quote:
Originally posted by pkd:
This is the UK version of the site, the US version offers asf ***spit***, which if I am not mistaken is basically a WiMP format.
wallace and gromit (http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/spotlights/wallacegromit/)
I don't think it will be a problem.
Holy shit, thank you. I had not seen those.
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Ewww, that site *requires* shockwave. No problem, enabled it downloaded some videos and they played perfectly. But they are *.asf videos not QT *.mov files. I thought you wanted to test QT files?
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Okay I'm just having bad computer days.
Okay it was offering me qt files yesterday but not today. Now it's all macromedia stuff.
Okay I think I'll let it lie and pick it up tonight. Something is wrong somewhere. I mean I downloaded two files and they have .mov extensions.
Okay and the site gives me problems asking that I upgrade the flash plugin - but they only support up to 5 on the Linux side of things (already asked them about this, no response yet), and yet you have no probs with it. I may be doing something silly. Will see when I get home tonight, if I have time.
Damn I am doing too many things at once.
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I'm running Flash 6 on Linux so I didn't get a warning. (http://smile.gif)
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/special/beta/ (http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/special/beta/)
My problem with *all* versions of flash is a page with bad flash can cause Mozilla to crash (the site you link is not one of them). I've been reading up on this and it is not clear if it is a problem with Mozilla or with Flash. The real problem is Mozilla needs to make it so if a plugin crashes, it doesn't crash Mozilla. It would be nice if you had a checkbox in the prefbar to enable disable flash. Instead I have to move the flash plugins out of /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2b and move them back in when I want to use flash. If you know of a better workaround (until they fix this damn thing) I would certainly like to know.
There is a standalone player for Linux on that same link above so normally I leave flash turned off and if there is an *.swf file that I want to view I play it in the standalone player (like the monkey one).
[ November 18, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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And again, this time its a release candidate. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/)
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try using alsa for sound, the only annoying thing, is now moz doens't crash when i got xmms up, i hear the flash and xmms.
and mplayer. it should have been at 1.0 a long time ago. just a naming conventiion i guess?
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The only reason I can think of for it not being 1.0 already is that the people making it wanted to support every codec known to man first (which they practically do now). I also think they should work to make installation much easier, as it is you have to dl all the codecs, and the skins (should at least come with a default), and a font, and package them automatically, plus make vorbis on by default. As it is there is still a hell of a lot of dling unpacking and putting x files in x directorys, plus a long long list of options that are put after the ./configure. As far a functionality goes though, its certainly ready.
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one of the problems with flash and mozilla is a sound issue. flash tries to take direct control of the sound device, and hangs if you are using kde sound (arts). the fix: configure the mozilla apps to start with the artsdsp soundwrapper: "artsdsp mozilla %u". macromedia knows about the problem, but doesn't plan on fixing it. I can't remember the bugzilla report on it.
-t.
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For anyone who agrees with Doctor V, there's a good guide to installing mplayer (with all the extra bits and pieces) here (http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.org/view/cvs/multimedia/mplayer.html).
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Or, if you are a Red Hat or Debian user:
# apt-get install mplayer-skins (http://voidmain.kicks-ass.net/redhat/redhat_8_apt-get_must_have.html)
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Im downloading the source of it now... I might install it on my NetBSD Box.