My desktop is running 32 bit Fedora Core 6 The 'kickstart' install that I have predominant around here is F7-x86_64 and the very few systems (i.e. the executive director) which have multi-media codecs/extensions installed have the indicated versions of mplayer installed from livna. I ***doubt*** that the outcome would be different though. The thing is, I did view those presentations long, long ago when I started playing with ruby-on-rails - at which time I probably had Fedora Core 3 installed (and mplayer) so I'm wondering if they updated the 'mov' files into newer versions of Quicktime that aren't compatible. As for the extra work for 64 bit, I agree with you and entered that world reluctantly but these Dell Optiplex 320's don't work so well with i386. i.e. on i386 (F7), to 'find' the hard drives, I have to set 2 kernel parameters (acpi=off pci=nomsi) which causes other issues whereas the x86_64 requires none of that nonsense. What I found is that Sun's java doesn't fully function on 64 bit but using the nspluginviewer extension, I can use the 32 bit versions of flash and acrobat reader plugins without much fuss on the 64 bit version of firefox. Craig On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 10:33 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote: > think it's because you're running 64 bit? > I'm still running 32 bit because I didn't want the extra adventure of > getting stuff to work on a 64 bit OD. > -j > > On 9/7/07, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 10:02 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 22:09 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm trying to play .Mov files for the purpose of > teaching myself > > > ruby on rails, but my Fedora 7 box is not helping. the > mplayer plugin > > > buffers but won't play it. I have all the codecs for > mplayer. Can > > > anyone make a suggestions what I might be missing. > > > > > > Here is what I'm trying to play: > > > http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts > > ---- > > # rpm -qa|grep mplayer > > mplayer-1.0-0.80.20070715svn.lvn7.x86_64 > > mplayerplug-in-3.45-1.lvn7.x86_64 > > mplayer-fonts-1.1-4.lvn6.noarch > > mplayer-gui-1.0-0.80.20070715svn.lvn7.x86_64 > > > > using livna (note the x86_64) but same should hold true for > i386 (and of > > course this is Fedora 7) > > > > I do seem to recall needing to download them to my local > desktop because > > there wasn't enough bandwidth to play in real time over the > net. > > > > I'm downloading the first one right now to see if it will > play on my > > FC-6 desktop > ---- > completely crashes both mplayer and gxine on my system... > > ;-( > > -- > Craig White > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Craig White --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss