From: Duane Attaway (dattaway@dattaway.org)
Date: 02/02/03


Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 23:53:40 -0600
From: Duane Attaway <dattaway@dattaway.org>
Subject: Re: Quick Time
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.50L0.0302022347550.2039-100000@dattaway.org>

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Brian Kelsay wrote:

> I've been hearing that mplayer will play quicktime. If I get it going
> on Gentoo, I'll let you know. I'm still trying to get X running, then
> comes the cool stuff.

mplayer works for me! Watching some great motorcycle videos from
alt.binaries.motorcycles.sportbikes:

dattaway@satellite abpms $ mplayer Norton\ VR880\ Special.mov

Playing Norton VR880 Special.mov
Cache fill: 19.63% (1646592 bytes) Searching demuxer type for filename
Norton VR880 Special.mov ext: .mov

!!! trying demuxer 7 based on filename extension
QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
Compressed header uses zlib algo!
Compressed header size: 2604 / 4620
--------------
MOV track #0: 153 chunks, 460 samples
Image size: 320 x 240 (24 bpp)
Display size: 320 x 240
Fourcc: SVQ1 Codec: 'Sorenson Video'
--------------
MOV track #1: 78 chunks, 0 samples
Audio bits: 16 chans: 2 rate: 22050
Fourcc: ima4

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