trouble playing .mov files

[Craig White]

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