trouble playing .mov files

[Craig White]

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
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> # 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
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completely crashes both mplayer and gxine on my system...

;-(

-- 
Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>