Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> posted 58965d8a0905131352v6cece43ap22447193975cf...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 13 May 2009 15:52:16 -0500:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Sebastian Redl > <sebastian.r...@getdesigned.at> wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> Sebastian Redl wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Does anyone know a 64-bit free media player (or other utility) that >>>> can dereference reference MOVs? I can't seem to find anything via >>>> Google. I want to download a movie trailer for offline viewing, but >>>> find myself thwarted. >>> >>> A URL to an example would be helpful. >>> >> http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/princessandthefrog/hd/ >> >> This page has trailers for Disney's new movie, but they're reference >> MOVs. I can't find a way to play them short of trying to install >> QuickTime. >> >> Sebastian > > Mplayer played it just fine for me. 1080p version. kaffeine played it fine, via xine-lib (which may be using ffmpeg, I'm not sure if it does for this codec or not), as well. I don't believe I've any binary-only codecs, either. So both xine-lib and mplayer can play it, along with anything that uses them as a backend, which is pretty much anything video, on Linux. You may have to play with USE flags a bit tho. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
