fangbite Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 I have some various mov files which I love to watch (as well as a friend of mine only distributes in that format a little video he does) but I can't seem to find something to watch that format in linux. I saw quicktime 4 linux but wasn't too sure of them (their site was very "we might run it, we might not"). Can anyone suggest something that would work for me to watch these files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 I have .MOV files too (from the digital camera). For playing them, I simply installed the whole Xine software and plugins from PLF. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 I think I might have it working, will have to check. I just chose xine-win32, which then selects the relevant dependencies. Two others I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 I play quicktime with VLC or mplayer, you just need the codecs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangbite Posted November 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Thank you. I got one working with xine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praveenmarkandu Posted July 30, 2006 Report Share Posted July 30, 2006 where do i get these codecs and how do i install them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted July 30, 2006 Report Share Posted July 30, 2006 Have a look here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 30, 2006 Report Share Posted July 30, 2006 If you are using VLC, you do NOT need any codecs... :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Hello scarecrow. Thanks for the reference to VLC. Had a quick look at the site and will download it when I get back to my home computer in a weeks time, to try it out. It looks like an interesting one. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 vlc is based on a (heavily tweaked) ffmpeg base, and all formats are supported natively- so, no codecs are needed. Of course not everything is rosy, i.e. o my puter wmv playback is very choppy (compared to mplayer with codecs), going back and forth in divx/xvid containers is hardly an option, but for plain playback it-just-works... natively. Oh, I forgot to mention that it uses a dreadful wxgtk UI, and it's darn ugly... but you do play your videos in fullscreen mode, don't you? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedball2 Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 There's "svlc" (skinned vlc) in plf-free. Not so darn ugly :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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