https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56847

Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEEDINFO                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #20 from Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> ---
Hi Michael,

Yes, sorry, I thought that possibly the gstreamer stuff had been integrated
into the OSX version of LO as well. Oh well.

Out of the box, Quicktime is supposed to support AVI playback, however support
is patchy :

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1536

and

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA38552


Lion Quicktime codec support is listed here :

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3526?viewlocale=en_EN

http://www.iskysoft.com/topic-snow-leopard/how-to-play-avi-with-quicktime-on-mac.html

in other words, AVI files that used to be read, no longer are in Lion and
Mountain Lion.

Note that according to the last article in that list, the solution to install
Perian (which works with Snow Leopard) to be able to read AVI is a non-starter
for OSX Lion or Mountain Lion.

As to OGV and WEBM, these are playable in Firefox or Chrome on OSX without
anything further, i.e. they don't rely on the Quicktime backend as far as I can
tell.

So, I guess that unless LO changes its multimedia backend reliance on Quicktime
on OSX, then the situation will only seemingly get worse as Apple restricts it
to the only formats it is prepared to support.

The irony of the situation is that VLC now has far broader built-in codec
support than Quicktime. Sigh.


Oh well, better close this then as INVALID, as there is nothing to be done.


Alex

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