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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:56:28
Message-Id: 58965d8a0908281605s45571efn219a24c476fba46e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox by Harry Putnam
1 On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Harry Putnam<reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > I'm having a heck of a time getting firefox setup so it can handle
3 > quicktime videos.
4 >
5 > I understand I need mplayer to be installed but haven't been able to
6 > emerge it.
7 > I'm hoping someone will recognize what this problem is... I certainly
8 > do not. But I do see others having trouble related to multi-core
9 > machines and mplayer... So NOTE: my hardware is not Multi-core. Its
10 > an intel 3.06 Ghz with 2gb of ram.
11 >
12 > Maybe its some thing related to the use flags... but there are so many
13 > listed as + and - ones... it's just confusing to me.
14 >
15 > Displayed below are first the Use flags that come up and then the tail
16 > of the build attempt. Use the provided url to view the full output if
17 > desired.
18 >
19 > (The massive full build.log and environment report can be viewed at:
20 > www.jtan.com/~reader/mpfailure/mp.cgi)
21 >
22 > (first the use flags that come up)
23 >
24 > [ebuild N ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p20090731-r1 USE="X a52
25 > aac alsa ass cddb cdio dirac dts dv dvdnav enca faac faad gif iconv
26 > live mmx mp2 network osdmenu rar real rtc samba schroedinger shm speex
27 > theora tremor truetype unicode x264 xv xvid -3dnow -3dnowext -aalib
28 > (-altivec) -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags
29 > -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -directfb -doc -dvb -dvd -dxr3 -encode
30 > -esd -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gmplayer -ipv6 -jack -joystick -jpeg -ladspa
31 > -libcaca -lirc -lzo -mad -md5sum -mmxext -mng -mp3 -nas -nut -openal
32 > -opencore-amr -opengl -oss -png -pnm -pulseaudio -pvr -quicktime
33 > -radio -sdl -sse -sse2 -ssse3 -svga -teletext -tga -v4l -v4l2 -vdpau
34 > -vidix -vorbis -win32codecs -xanim -xinerama -xscreensaver -xvmc
35 > -zoran"
36 >
37
38 http://bugs.gentoo.org/213836
39
40 Seems to possibly be related to win32codecs and/or quicktime USE flag.
41 Try enabling one or both of them and see if that helps.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>