Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

[Mick]

Thanks Daniel,

On 22 March 2010 07:29, Daniel Troeder <daniel@×××××××××.com> wrote:
> On 03/22/2010 07:58 AM, Mick wrote:
>> What's the trick for playing Apple Trailers these days?  It used to work fine
>> years ago, but now all I get is a pop-up telling me to download Apple's
>> Quicktime player.  :-(
>>
>> I looked for mplayer USE flags to enable it, but can't find any.  I did find
>> media-libs/libquicktime, but I am not sure if this is needed or which video
>> player will use it.
> You have to use
> $ mplayer -user-agent=QuickTime/7.6.2
> http://trailers.apple.com/movies/disney/aliceinwonderland/aliceinwonderland-clip1_480p.mov

The correct syntax is slightly different:

mplayer -user-agent QuickTime/7.6.2

The "=" sign is required in the configuration file though.

Thanks again.
-- 
Regards,
Mick