Bug#290596: fails to play QuickTime video

[Matt Kraai]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 06:22:46PM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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.

Thank you for the explanation.  Is anyone working on free software for 
sound support?

-- 
Matt