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Pavel Jackoff

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Registered: 2006-08-05

Posts: 30

Get the latest Quicktime

Hi there,

I just recently ran into a problem on apple.com/trailers. Most movies w/o HD-vids told me to "Get the latest Quicktime".
I googled a while but couldn't find a working solution. However the problem can be easily fixed. Just open ".mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat" and search for the line that reads "QuickTime Plug-in 6.0 / 7:$" and change it to "QuickTime Plug-in 7:$". apple.com/trailers is working again....
I hope this little fix does not break compatibility with other sites, but so far everything works fine.

Have fun,
Pavel

Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 702

Re: Get the latest Quicktime

And what about Opera with opera-mplayer-plugin from AUR? It's the same problem.

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GogglesGuy

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From: Rocket City

Registered: 2005-03-29

Posts: 610

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Re: Get the latest Quicktime

You need the latest mplayer-plugin from their CVS. The current release doesn't work.

Pavel Jackoff

Member

Registered: 2006-08-05

Posts: 30

Re: Get the latest Quicktime

And what about Opera with opera-mplayer-plugin from AUR? It's the same problem.

Unfortunately just changing the version-numbers in opera6.ini does not work. As a workaround you could open the source of the page. The full URL of the mov-file is always quite near the top of the source. If you paste this URL in your browser, mplayer-plugin will play it, or you could just download it.

schivmeister

Developer/TU

From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 971

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Re: Get the latest Quicktime

Oh my what a disappointment. The topic title led me to believe Quicktime was open-sourced.

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Get the latest Quicktime

Grr. Totem-plugin is the only thing that works with these.

Anyone know how to compile Totem without Gnome stuff? I might make a PKGBUILD and put it in the AUR...

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Get the latest Quicktime

This file will play the newer Quicktime movies. You can rebuild from ABS with only a couple of changes to the PKGBUILD:

http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/m … ily.tar.gz