You may want to check out mplayerplug-in. It's a bit odly named, but it will run as the video player for all the mozilla derived browsers, using the mplayer drivers. Not sure if it automagically will work with firebird, you may need to copy the files from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/plugins (check what is loaded with 'about:plugins').
Alan On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:39:39PM -0700, Chris Graves wrote: > my question actually stems from mozilla-firebird. At startup, it > apparently checks libquicktime version and intermittently generates an > error about the version being >5 and dies. > > Portage has 3 quicktime related packages: quicktime4linux, libquicktime, > and openquicktime. The latter two I know for sure provide > libquicktime.so (.a); but neither solves my little problem with > mozilla-firebird. The most disturbing issue to me is the intermittency > of the problem. I had the same problem a couple months ago, got > discouraged, unmerged mozilla-firebird, and then re-emerged a couple > weeks ago and have been using it since without a hitch until this morning. > > any thoughts? > > -chris > > Redeeman wrote: > > >just emerge the mplayer package, it gives you a really good working > >quicktime, it is much faster than quicktime pro under windows :-) > > > >On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 20:31, Chris Graves wrote: > > > > > >>which quicktime package in portage should I use? Is there even a > >>difference from a user perspective? > >> > >>-chris > >> > >> > >>-- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >> > >> > >> > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
