On 11/6/05, Matthew Bevan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have you tried VLC by any chance? It may not work with the codec that > > I've used for this incarnation of the video. I'm not sure, but VLC > > plays an awful lot of files. > > VLC in their features list does not mention QuickTime, so I will assume > it uses the same technology that mplayer does - that is, it utilizes > emulation of Windows codecs under foreign systems. Again, that isn't > going to cut it for my loverly 64-bit system.
Actually, VLC does support QuickTime (the "MOV" container format). > Experimenting with mplayer-bin under Gentoo it seems to work, but > suffers from interesting problems due to linking against odd library > versions. (For example, mine is unable to deal with spaces in names, > no matter how quoted or escaped I make it. ;) > > I just tried the 20 Minute Wiki with VLC, and it doesn't work. I'm not surprised that the "Apple Animation" codec is not supported. However, if I do future screencasts in QuickTime format with DivX encoding for the video and AAC for the audio, all should be well. Anywhere VLC runs, the video should run. Kevin -- Kevin Dangoor Author of the Zesty News RSS newsreader email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company: http://www.BlazingThings.com blog: http://www.BlueSkyOnMars.com
