[Mozplugger] Fw: mozplugger with quicktime

[Louis Bavoil]

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Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 08:03:18 -0500
From: Ed Freeberg <ed.freeberg at lvdcasino.com>
To: Louis Bavoil <bavoil at sci.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: mozplugger with quicktime

Louis Bavoil wrote:

>The video embedded on this page is at the URL
>http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/UMG/nashville/088170314_07_300.mov
>so MozPlugger calls MPlayer which is registered for .mov files in the
>default mozpluggerrc file. (I assume you have MPlayer installed.)
>
>The problem seems to be that mplayer doesn't support this particular
>type of QuickTime file which is not a video but an indirection to a
>video stream.  (The URL of the video stream is included in
>088170314_07_300.mov).
>
>$ mplayer
>http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/UMG/nashville/088170314_07_300.mov[...]
>Connected to server: stream.qtv.apple.com
>Cache fill:  0.00% (216 bytes)    MOV: Reference Media file!!!
>QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
>Exiting... (End of file)
>
>$ mplayer -v
>MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
>
>Could you make sure that you are using mplayer to read the video and
>that your mplayer fails to play it?
>(For instance, recompiling MozPlugger enabling the -DDEBUG flag in the
>Makefile, reinstalling, loading the page, and reading /tmp/mozdebug .)
>
>Can any open-source video player play the URL above?
>
>Louis
>  
>

Louis:

My mplayer setup is the same as yours, and it also fails to play the
movie.

I tried another quicktime movie 
http://www.hawaiianatolls.org/video/HURL/HURL_Onaga.mov
and mozplugger/mplayer works correctly.

I guess I picked a poor quicktime movie to test mozplugger on.  I wasn't
so much interested in seeing Shania as making sure I'd installed
mozplugger correctly.

Thank you for making mozplugger.  I'd tried to get Hübinette's plugger 
to work in the past without success.  Your fork is much better.  :)

Regards,

Ed