Quick Time

[Duane Attaway]

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 at 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
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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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