Quicktime Trailers for PPC problems

Victor Ng crankycoder at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 14:10:23 UTC 2004


Do those Debian packages play those Quicktime trailers with audio for
you?  Does it also include a browser plugin?  I'm away from my PPC
Ubuntu machine so I can't try it out for myself right now.


On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:21:11 -0200, Claudio Carlquist
<claudio.carlquist at gmail.com> wrote:
> I´ve just installed 'mplayer-fonts_3.5-2_all.deb' and
> 'mplayer-powerpc_1.0-pre5-0.7.agx1_powerpc.deb' got from
> http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/debian/mplayer/ on
> my iBook G3. I know that I shouldn´t mix Debian packages with Ubuntu´s
> ones, but so far Mplayer is running fine on my machine. The only
> drawnback is apt-get´s complaints about those packages and the only
> way to install something else on my machine is removing them at first.
> So, by now I just have those packages on my HD and keep installing
> them anytime they´re removed by synaptic or apt-get...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 07:29:44 -0500, Victor Ng <crankycoder at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to get MPlayer installed on the PPC version of Ubuntu, but
> > I'm not having much luck.  I've never tried installing MPlayer from
> > source before - so I may be doing something entirely stupid, but I
> > don't _think_ I am.
> >
> > The build instructions I'm using are the ones at:
> >
> > http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/hack/ubuntu.txt
> >
> > I'm configuring and compiling doing the usual:
> >
> > ./configure --enable-gui ;make clean; make; sudo make install
> >
> > MPG video and audio work fine - I can still watch the dancing monkey
> > boy with no problem.  :)
> >
> > However- I'm able to play Quicktime Trailers and _see_ the
> > video stream, but I don't seem to have the audio codec to support the
> > trailer.
> >
> > The error I'm getting seems to be popular on Google:
> >
> > "Requested audio codec family [qdmc] (afm=qtaudio) not available"
> >
> > But I'm unable to find a solution to this problem.  Does anyone know
> > if this is a PowerPC specific problem or if it's just something I've
> > misconfigured?
> >
> > vic
> > 
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