Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 1171:adc81cb80adf
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| author | gabucino |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:49:29 +0000 |
| parents | 204b0a4c6aa8 |
| children | 290353337b44 |
| files | DOCS/MPlayer-FAQ |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/DOCS/MPlayer-FAQ Tue Jun 19 22:38:47 2001 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/MPlayer-FAQ Tue Jun 19 22:49:29 2001 +0000 @@ -245,3 +245,13 @@ compile it. Important: this is NOT an MPlayer-specific problem, numerous other projects (DRI, avifile, etc..) have problems with this shit too. ** DO NOT USE gcc 2.96 !!! ** + +Q: Is there a hint on how to watch QuickTime and RealMedia movies in mplayer? +A: There's no way to do it. Therefore these formats deserve to die in flames. + Theoretically you can reverse engineer Real codecs built for Linux (they + are available as .so files), but in practice that's really difficult, even + if you know how the compiler used by Real is making assembler code. + As for QuickTime, it's possible to play some old movies and this + capability will be added to mplayer soon, but newer clips are all Sorenson + encoded, and that codec is built-in deep in the QT executable, there's + no way to use it.