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#1 2009-03-01 19:46:31
- estex198
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(!apple video) with gnome-mplayer & gecko-mediaplayer
I'm trying to watch these video lectures for my trig class. Can't get them to play. installed firefox 3 (branded) along with gecko-mediaplayer and gnome-mplayer. I'm running arch32 and am having the same problem in kde as I had in gnome. Not sure what the deal is since it appears to start playing but stops almost immediately. Firefox doesnt crash or anything, but the video window just opens gnome-mplayer and displays stopped in the status bar.
Here is a link to the video
http://asp.mathxl.com/info/mmlib_mov.as … 4_MSTR.mov
BTW arch rocks.
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#2 2009-03-01 20:07:54
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Re: (!apple video) with gnome-mplayer & gecko-mediaplayer
Yepp, this doesn't seem to work... If you try to download the file, it actually only downloads a file named mmlib_mov.asp, which contains the following test
<html>
<head>
<title>quicktimemovie</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<embed src="http://quicktime.pearsoncmg.com/aw/mml/hat04/hat04_0904_MSTR.mov" width="100%" height="100%" bgcolor="000000" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" autoplay="true" controller="true" scale="aspect">
</embed>
</body>
</html>What a piece of bullcrap! 
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#3 2009-03-01 20:26:59
- skottish
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Re: (!apple video) with gnome-mplayer & gecko-mediaplayer
It's failing because it's testing for your Quicktime version. It complains that it needs Quicktime 5 or greater. I agree, what a piece of bullcrap!
Incidentally, if anyone wants to know how I know that:
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#4 2009-03-01 20:34:20
- estex198
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Re: (!apple video) with gnome-mplayer & gecko-mediaplayer
So. Any way to fool it into "thinking" I have quicktime 5 or greater? I think there is a way to trick websites into thinking you have a different web browser (through advanced settings.)
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#5 2009-03-01 20:50:16
- skottish
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Re: (!apple video) with gnome-mplayer & gecko-mediaplayer
I'm not sure how to hack this one. gecko-mediplayer is reporting the Quicktime version as being current, so the other end is testing in some strange way.
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