Bug#290596: fails to play QuickTime video

[Bastien Nocera]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 14:45 -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> Package: totem-gstreamer
> Version: 0.99.22-1
> 
> When I attempt to play a QuickTime video, Totem displays the following
> dialog box:
> 
>  Totem could not play
>  'file:///home/kraai/Desktop/Downloads/Biddies_EPK.mov'.
>  There were no decoders found to handle the stream in file
>  "file:///home/kraai/Desktop/Downloads/Biddies_EPK.mov", you might
>  need to install the corresponding plugins
> 
> file says that it is a QuickTime video:
> 
>  Biddies_EPK.mov: Apple QuickTime movie (fast start)
> 
> gstreamer0.8-misc, which includes the libgstqtdemux.so, is installed.
> 
> You can find the video online at
> 
>  http://biddies4ever.com/video/Biddies_EPK.mov

Video is H.263 for which the ffmpeg plugin is necessary. GStreamer won't
be able to play the sound (QDesign Music Codec v2) for which xine-lib
will use the Quicktime DLLs.

So the "won't play" is correct, unless you have gst-ffmpeg installed.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>