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

Steven A. Adams stevea at nwtechops.com
Mon Feb 3 17:58:01 UTC 2003


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?
> Many thanks in advance.

Take a look at xine. I was able to get it working on my SuSE 8 box. You
should be able to find them on sourceforge.net.





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