This one time, at band camp, Trent Murray wrote:

>  I have tried gxine, mplayer, VLC and I am ashamed to say RealPlay - I cant
> believe the people that made these tutorials didnt think to use a format
> that was actually readable under Linux.

Quicktime is a wrapper format, like AVI, and can use a bunch of 
different actual codecs.  It's likely to be Sorrenson that you're 
struggling with.  Download and install the binary codecs for mplayer and 
you'll probably be fine:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

This seems to have some Ubuntu-specific instructions:
http://onlyubuntu.blogspot.com/2007/03/install-mplayer-and-multimedia-codecs.html

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