[PLUG] Desperate situation-> Quick time videos in Linux?

[Rogan Creswick]

Disclaimer: this is a debian-centric solution. but it may work if you
have alien and another distro (sorry, I dont know of a
distribution-generic solution like this.)

If you are using debian, then this apt-source line will allow you to
apt-get install mplayer with much less pain.

deb http://marillat.free.fr unstable main

(apt-get update after adding it to your sources.list of course.)


-Rogan


On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:44:15PM -0800, Robbert van Andel wrote:
> mplayer is a bear to install.  I tried on several occasions and got
> thoroughly confused by the poor installation documentation and had to
> give up.  I've been lucky enough not to need any QT or WMV file
> support.  I've heard good things about CodeWeavers crossover software.
> 
> Robbert van Andel
> 
> On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 14:28, Wil Cooley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 13:51, Alex Daniloff wrote:
> > > Hello Linux folkz,
> > > It's the first time I hit the wall with Linux.
> > > My wife desperately needs to watch educational videos 
> > > from a medical web site as a part of her preparation 
> > > to medical board exam.
> > > Unfortunately these med. videos made in QuickTime 
> > > format and can't be downloaded as files.
> > > Mozilla on Linux doesn't have any QuickTime plugins.
> > > They're available only for Winblows and Macs.
> > > Should I just give up and pay big bucks to to install
> > > Windoze on one of my computers or there is another
> > > way to deal with this obstacle?
> > > Could somebody please advise any other method to resolve
> > > this problem?
> > 
> > Crossover may be the easiest option, but mplayer can play QT videos now
> > and you can use plugger with NS/Moz (I've never really liked plugger,
> > but it might just be what you need in this situation.)
> > 
> > Wil
> -- 
> Robbert van Andel
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> 
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