13698 – mplayer-0.90_rc2, quicktime and sorenson

Bug 13698 - mplayer-0.90_rc2, quicktime and sorenson

Summary: mplayer-0.90_rc2, quicktime and sorenson

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-01-11 00:29 UTC by Zhen Lin
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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Description Zhen Lin 2003-01-11 00:29:01 UTC

The new mplayer can handle sorenson encoded quicktime movies, however, the
libraries for it are not installed.

If both mplayer and mplayer-cvs (from bug #11136) are installed, mplayer (not
mplayer-cvs) can decode and play sorenson encoded quicktime movies. Based on the
configure options of mplayer, it would appear that mplayer is built with
sorenson quicktime support only if the codecs are already installed. 

Thus, if one installs mplayer-cvs and mplayer in that order, mplayer will be
able to play sorenson encoded quicktime movies. But when mplayer-cvs is
unmerged, the codecs will be uninstalled and mplayer will crash when attempting
to play sorenson quicktime movies.

I suggest that either quicktime support in mplayer-0.90_rc2 be disabled, or that
the appropriate codecs are installed and support is enabled when USE="quicktime"

Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-01-12 14:51:30 UTC

They are installed with quicktime in USE and media-libs/win32codecs are merged.