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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Harry Putnam<reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> I'm having a heck of a time getting firefox setup so it can handle
> quicktime videos.
>
> I understand I need mplayer to be installed but haven't been able to
> emerge it.
> I'm hoping someone will recognize what this problem is... I certainly
> do not. But I do see others having trouble related to multi-core
> machines and mplayer... So NOTE: my hardware is not Multi-core. Its
> an intel 3.06 Ghz with 2gb of ram.
>
> Maybe its some thing related to the use flags... but there are so many
> listed as + and - ones... it's just confusing to me.
>
> Displayed below are first the Use flags that come up and then the tail
> of the build attempt. Use the provided url to view the full output if
> desired.
>
> (The massive full build.log and environment report can be viewed at:
> www.jtan.com/~reader/mpfailure/mp.cgi)
>
> (first the use flags that come up)
>
> [ebuild N ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p20090731-r1 USE="X a52
> aac alsa ass cddb cdio dirac dts dv dvdnav enca faac faad gif iconv
> live mmx mp2 network osdmenu rar real rtc samba schroedinger shm speex
> theora tremor truetype unicode x264 xv xvid -3dnow -3dnowext -aalib
> (-altivec) -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags
> -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -directfb -doc -dvb -dvd -dxr3 -encode
> -esd -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gmplayer -ipv6 -jack -joystick -jpeg -ladspa
> -libcaca -lirc -lzo -mad -md5sum -mmxext -mng -mp3 -nas -nut -openal
> -opencore-amr -opengl -oss -png -pnm -pulseaudio -pvr -quicktime
> -radio -sdl -sse -sse2 -ssse3 -svga -teletext -tga -v4l -v4l2 -vdpau
> -vidix -vorbis -win32codecs -xanim -xinerama -xscreensaver -xvmc
> -zoran"
>
http://bugs.gentoo.org/213836
Seems to possibly be related to win32codecs and/or quicktime USE flag.
Try enabling one or both of them and see if that helps.