Bug#290596: fails to play QuickTime video

Bastien Nocera Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>, 290596@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:07:25 +0000


On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 15:00 -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 06:22:46PM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
<snip>
> > 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?

Not that I know of. Check the ffmpeg lists, that'd be where most of the
work would be done.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>