any .MOV players with sound?

[mutazoid]

Is there any .MOV players with sound?

 

I have mandrake 10.1

 

I can play .MOV files in Kaffine and Mplayer but I cant hear the sound :(

 

Any ideas?

 

Im trying to play videos from www.diggnation.com

 

Keith

[theYinYeti]

I configured PLF and contrib sources using Easy-Urpmi, and installed Xine and Xine plugins from PLF. For me, all videos have sound, including .mov. I hope this helps.

 

Yves.

[solarian]

VLC has sound too.

[mutazoid]

I configured PLF and contrib sources using Easy-Urpmi, and installed Xine and Xine plugins from PLF. For me, all videos have sound, including .mov. I hope this helps.

 

Yves.

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I was trying to figure that stuff out.....

What is PLF excatly?

Also is Urpmi software installing package?

 

Thanks,

 

Keith

[theYinYeti]

I'll try and better explain:

 

Much like Debian created apt as a front-end to the more basic dpkg, Mandrake (now Mandriva) created urpmi as a front-end to the more basic rpm command.

 

The "rpm" command lets you manage one single RPM file at a time, or do some queries about the software you have on your machine.

The "urpmi" command is able to not only install a RPM file you have, but also automatically install the other RPM files that are needed by the one you want to install: this is called dependency handling. More over, instead of issuing the command "urpmi /path/to/some-program.rpm", you can just run "urpmi some-program" and it will figure where the file is.

 

However, for the urpmi "magic" to work, it needs to be configured (it is using a kind of database). More specifically, you need to tell urpmi about "software sources/media" (much like bookshops... where all is free:))

 

"urpmi" (install) has an easy-to-use GUI front-end named "rpmdrake".

"urpme" (remove) has an easy-to-use GUI front-end named "rpmdrake-remove"

"urpmq" (query on package name) and "urpmf" (query on file name) are integrated into rpmdrake.

I recommend you use all those wonderfull front-ends: they work well.

 

On the other hand, for the media management, the GUI front-end (available in Mandriva Control Center) is not that easy too use for media declaration. It is rather OK for updating the media or enabling/disabling individual media, but it is not very easy to use for creating a new media.

 

For the declaration/creation of a new media, it is much easier to use the command-line (as root), all the more because the commands to type are given to you by another excellent tool: Easy-Urpmi, which is a web tool available on top of this very page :)!

 

In Easy-Urpmi, you can select several sources. You should at least have "main", "contrib" and "PLF-free" (PLF= Penguin Liberation Front). If you live in a country where it is allowed, you really should have "PLF-nonfree" too. I have all four.

 

When you have updated your sources using the commands given to you by Easy-Urpmi, just enjoy your new rpmdrake :)

 

To conclude, you may have a choice between "normal" codecs, and "PLF" codecs; choose the latter.

 

Yves.

[Guest heyho]

Try this: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/