I wanted to look at a video on a web site that offered it in RealPlayer, QuickTime, and Windows Media Player format. To my suprise (since I had installed RealPlayer) I couldn't, and this led to some questions that perhaps people here could answer.
Which of these formats would be the best choice for Debian (I do have some windows partitions, though I don't think I've installed any of the recent MediaPlayer stuff)? Ideally, I want it to work through my mozilla 1.4 browser, built with gcc 3.3. What are the best tools to view these formats? I have the old (and apparently no longer existing) realplayer for debian package, along with the latest (as of a month ago) unix realplayer from real.com. However, it is not recognized as a plug in for my mozilla 1.4. I believe I read somewhere that realplayer, built with older gcc's, is not going to work with mozilla built with the new gccs. I also had no luck pasting the URL directly into realplayer, probably because the URL is only of a page that does some magic to decide what kind of video to serve (http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/sge/sge1.html, but I think it's password protected). Discussion a few months ago mentioned http://marillat.free.fr/ both for the realplayer for Debian package (which no longer seems to be there) and for mplayer (about which there were mixed comments). I see several packages providing quicktime support (xine, xmovie, xanim) and don't know if one is obviously better (or better at integrating into mozilla). Any thoughts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]