When will totem play Apple.com/trailers again?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Oct 24 21:59:14 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 12:49 -0700, john wendel wrote:
> On 10/24/2009 09:44 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 09:41 -0700, john wendel wrote:
> >>> I find it interesting that the Apple TV ads do play on F11, which is
> >> an
> >>> admission that QT is a niche format.
> >>>
> >>> poc
> >>>
> >>
> >> I just installed gecko-mediaplayer (F11) and it plays the trailers at
> >> apple.com just fine.
> >
> > If you mean the TV ads, then that's what I said. If you mean the other
> > stuff, e.g. http://www.apple.com/imac/the-new-imac/#small then no, and I
> > do have gecko-mediaplayer installed.
> >
> > poc
> >
> 
> No, I mean the trailers at www.apple.com/trailers. I just player the HD 
> version of the trailer for "Red Cliff". Worked perfectly. I also tried 
> your imac url. It also played (but it was too boring to watch more that 
> 2 minutes of the 7:09).

The movie trailers do work. The Apple promo stuff doesn't (except for
the TV ads as I said).

> Do you have the full mplayer codec pack installed?

I believe so, but since it's not an RPM I'd have to check the files one
by one. The latest codecs tarball on the Mplayer site is a couple of
years old so I doubt that's the problem.

poc




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