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 <craig@tobyhouse.com> 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...
>
> ;-(
>
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> Craig White <craig@tobyhouse.com>
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