Movie trailers, mplayer, etc.

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey
Tue Oct 24 19:14:19 PDT 2006


Collins Richey wrote:
> Just to keep the "dead" comments at bay, here's a topic to ponder.
> 
> Lately I've been encountering more and more trailers onthe
> AppleTrailers site that will not play using Firefox/Seamonkey, mplayer
> plugin, and theaccursed non-free codecs. Interestingly enough, some of
> these will not play on my wife's XP box either. For example, Dream
> Girls and Babel among the current offerings. mplayer buffers to 99%
> and hangs.
> 
> Any guesses what might be wrong?
> 


While I don't have my linux box with mplayer updated that recently, my 
Mac box says that these trailers want QuickTime 7.1



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