[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/01/2009 03:00 AM, Stroller wrote: >> >> On 31 Aug 2009, at 18:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>> On 08/31/2009 05:00 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/30/2009 10:59 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: >> 64bit Linux, AFAICT, does not yet p

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

On 09/01/2009 03:00 AM, Stroller wrote: On 31 Aug 2009, at 18:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/31/2009 05:00 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/30/2009 10:59 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: 64bit Linux, AFAICT, does not yet play .mov files They play fine here. Are you able

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

On 31 Aug 2009, at 18:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/31/2009 05:00 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/30/2009 10:59 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: 64bit Linux, AFAICT, does not yet play .mov files They play fine here. Are you able to drag a link from this page:

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

On 08/31/2009 05:00 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/30/2009 10:59 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: 64bit Linux, AFAICT, does not yet play .mov files They play fine here. Are you able to drag a link from this page: and p

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/30/2009 10:59 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: >> 64bit Linux, AFAICT, does not yet play .mov files > > They play fine here. > > > Are you able to drag a link from this page: and play it on mplayer? TIA!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

On 30 Aug 2009, at 17:40, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... mplayer support for realplayer was a right royal cockup. The only thing it could ever have meant was that mplayer could play Real videos. But the way it was documented, users couldn't figure out if this would install the binary realplayer,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

On 30 Aug 2009, at 18:23, Harry Putnam wrote: ... "USE=" is supposed to add *support* for , not necessarily *install* something called . Whatever means in the context of a specific ebuild depends on what the ebuild is for, and different ebuilds with the same USE flag may have entirely differen

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

On 08/30/2009 10:59 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: 64bit Linux, AFAICT, does not yet play .mov files They play fine here.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

Harry Putnam wrote: I'm having a heck of a time getting firefox setup so it can handle quicktime videos. FWIW, out of security considerations I run FF in a chroot jail with as little "other stuff" in the jail as possible So using an extension called "unplug"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

On Sun, August 30, 2009 19:23, Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > >> You have it wrong. >> > > A not unusual state of affairs for me, I'll admit. > > > After several yrs on gentoo... I still don't understand fully the use > of the USE flags. > >> "USE=" is supposed to add *support* f

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

Alan McKinnon writes: > You have it wrong. A not unusual state of affairs for me, I'll admit. After several yrs on gentoo... I still don't understand fully the use of the USE flags. > "USE=" is supposed to add *support* for , not > necessarily *install* something called . Whatever > means in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

On Sunday 30 August 2009 18:09:08 Harry Putnam wrote: > Stroller writes: > > Actually, I think there used to be an mplayer USE flag that behaved in > > exactly this way - it was associated with RealPlayer &/or their > > codecs. > > > > However I would assume this to be the exception rather than th

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

Stroller writes: > Actually, I think there used to be an mplayer USE flag that behaved in > exactly this way - it was associated with RealPlayer &/or their > codecs. > > However I would assume this to be the exception rather than the rule, > and one would generally assume that USE="x y z" adds su

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

On 29 Aug 2009, at 22:34, Harry Putnam wrote: ... Well you can't expect emerge to read your mind. If you want something, enable it. This is Gentoo, after all. Ok... everybody is suddenly an expert... hehe. My thinking ran something like: Mplayer may play *.mov files with its own codec... t

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 08/29/2009 10:59 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Stroller writes: >> >>> >>> I'm surprised you emerged mplayer with USE="-quicktime", since the >>> purpose of doing so is to play Quicktime videos. >>> :P >> >> emerge came up with those setting... I just didn't change it

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

Paul Hartman writes: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm having a heck of a time getting firefox setup so it can handle >> quicktime videos. [...] Paul wrote: > Seems to possibly be related to win32codecs and/or quicktime USE flag. > Try enabling one or both of them an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

Am Samstag, 29. August 2009 schrieb Harry Putnam: > Stroller writes: > > I'm surprised you emerged mplayer with USE="-quicktime", since the > > purpose of doing so is to play Quicktime videos. > > > > :P > > emerge came up with those setting... I just didn't change it. Wrong profile? I always for

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

On 08/29/2009 10:59 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Stroller writes: I'm surprised you emerged mplayer with USE="-quicktime", since the purpose of doing so is to play Quicktime videos. :P emerge came up with those setting... I just didn't change it. Well you can't expect emerge to read your mind.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

Stroller writes: > > I'm surprised you emerged mplayer with USE="-quicktime", since the > purpose of doing so is to play Quicktime videos. > :P emerge came up with those setting... I just didn't change it.