[gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

[gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

[Mick]

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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.
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

[Daniel Troeder]

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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

$ echo "user-agent=QuickTime/7.6.2" >> ~/.mplayer/config

The links on the web pages don't work for me - I search for the URL in
the HTML-source :(

Bye,
Daniel

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Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

[Mick]

Thanks Daniel,

On 22 March 2010 07:29, Daniel Troeder <daniel@admin-box.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.
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Regards,
Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

[Christian Schulze]

Hi,

I installed www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer version 0.9.9.2 (masked with 
keywords ~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86) recently and this works great 
with the Apple Trailers.

It pulls in gnome-mplayer, which requires mplayer of course. I compiled them 
with the following use flags, just in case you need them:

[ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091026-r1  USE="3dnow 3dnowext 
X a52 aac alsa ass bidi cddb cdio dirac dts dv dvd dvdnav enca encode esd faac 
faad gif iconv ipv6 jack jpeg live mad mmx mmxext mng mp3 network openal 
opengl osdmenu oss png quicktime rar real rtc schroedinger sdl shm speex sse 
svga theora toolame tremor truetype twolame unicode vorbis win32codecs x264 
xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc -aalib (-altivec) -bindist -bl -bs2b -cdparanoia -
cpudetection -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -directfb -doc -dvb -dxr3 -fbcon -ftp 
-ggi -gmplayer -joystick -ladspa -libcaca -lirc -lzo -md5sum -nas -nut -
opencore-amr -pnm -pulseaudio -pvr -radio -samba -sse2 -ssse3 -teletext -tga -
v4l -v4l2 -vdpau -vidix -xanim -xinerama -zoran" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia -mga -
s3virge -tdfx" 15,153 kB     

[ebuild   R   ] media-video/gnome-mplayer-0.9.9.2  USE="alsa libnotify -gnome 
-ipod -musicbrainz -pulseaudio" 0 kB                              

[ebuild   R   ] www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.9.2  USE="-gnome" 0 kB


Cheers
Christian

Am Montag, 22. März 2010 07:58:33 schrieb Mick:
> 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

[Mick]

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On Monday 22 March 2010 19:18:48 Christian Schulze wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer version 0.9.9.2 (masked with
> keywords ~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86) recently and this works
>  great with the Apple Trailers.
> 
> It pulls in gnome-mplayer, 

Thanks Christian, I am not sure I want to install a gnome front end to 
mplayer.  However, it seems that the gecko-mediaplayer plugin only has one 
option.  Anyone knows if there's an alternative?  Qt4 front end like smplayer 
would be preferable to me.
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

[YoYo siska]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 07:30:49PM +0000, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 22 March 2010 19:18:48 Christian Schulze wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I installed www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer version 0.9.9.2 (masked with
> > keywords ~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86) recently and this works
> >  great with the Apple Trailers.
> > 
> > It pulls in gnome-mplayer, 
> 
> Thanks Christian, I am not sure I want to install a gnome front end to 
> mplayer.  However, it seems that the gecko-mediaplayer plugin only has one 
> option.  Anyone knows if there's an alternative?  Qt4 front end like smplayer 
> would be preferable to me.

don't know about alternatives, but gnome-mplayer with -gnome use flag
(and the same holds for gecko-mplayer) is just a "simple" gtk app,
just like firefox itself, nothig gnome specific about it and
theoretically it can look better in firefox than qt apps, because they
both use the same engine/theme ;)

with -gnome it also doesn't bring in any gnome dependencies... its just
that it is named gnome-... (well, because when you enable it, it can
becamu a "full" gnome app..., though I really don't know what gnome
features it uses ;)

yoyo