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

[Harry Putnam]

I'm having a heck of a time getting firefox setup so it can handle
quicktime videos.

I understand I need mplayer to be installed but haven't been able to
emerge it.
I'm hoping someone will recognize what this problem is... I certainly
do not.  But I do see others having trouble related to multi-core
machines and mplayer... So NOTE: my hardware is not Multi-core.  Its
an intel 3.06 Ghz with 2gb of ram.

Maybe its some thing related to the use flags... but there are so many
listed as + and - ones... it's just confusing to me.  

Displayed below are first the Use flags that come up and then the tail
of the build attempt.  Use the provided url to view the full output if
desired.

(The massive full build.log and environment report can be viewed at:
    www.jtan.com/~reader/mpfailure/mp.cgi)

 (first the use flags that come up)

[ebuild  N    ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p20090731-r1  USE="X a52
aac alsa ass cddb cdio dirac dts dv dvdnav enca faac faad gif iconv
live mmx mp2 network osdmenu rar real rtc samba schroedinger shm speex
theora tremor truetype unicode x264 xv xvid -3dnow -3dnowext -aalib
(-altivec) -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags
-custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -directfb -doc -dvb -dvd -dxr3 -encode
-esd -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gmplayer -ipv6 -jack -joystick -jpeg -ladspa
-libcaca -lirc -lzo -mad -md5sum -mmxext -mng -mp3 -nas -nut -openal
-opencore-amr -opengl -oss -png -pnm -pulseaudio -pvr -quicktime
-radio -sdl -sse -sse2 -ssse3 -svga -teletext -tga -v4l -v4l2 -vdpau
-vidix -vorbis -win32codecs -xanim -xinerama -xscreensaver -xvmc
-zoran"

==================
(tail of failure )
==================
[...]
client -lgif -lasound -ldl -lpthread -lcdio_cdda -lcdio -lcdio_paranoia  -lfreetype -lz -lfontconfig  -lenca -lz -lbz2 -lspeex -ltheora -logg   -ldts -lliveMedia -lgroupsock -lUsageEnvironment -lBasicUsageEnvironment -lstdc++ -ldv -ldirac_encoder -ldirac_decoder -lstdc++   -lschroedinger-1.0 -lpthread -loil-0.3 -lm -lrt   -lpthread -ldl -rdynamic  -lm   
loader/module.o: In function `MODULE_GetProcAddress':
module.c:(.text+0xf8): undefined reference to `report_entry'
module.c:(.text+0x102): undefined reference to `report_ret'
module.c:(.text+0x10c): undefined reference to `wrapper_target'
module.c:(.text+0x111): undefined reference to `wrapper'
loader/module.o: In function `LoadLibraryExA':
module.c:(.text+0x1000): undefined reference to `report_entry'
module.c:(.text+0x100a): undefined reference to `report_ret'
module.c:(.text+0x1015): undefined reference to `wrapper_target'
module.c:(.text+0x101b): undefined reference to `wrapper'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [mplayer] Error 1
 * 
 * ERROR: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p20090731-r1 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
 *             environment, line 2623:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *       emake || die "Failed to build MPlayer!";
 *  The die message:
 *   Failed to build MPlayer!
[...]