Re: playing quicktime movie with sorenson compression

From: graham marsden (graham.marsden1_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 07/20/03 

Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:31:06 +0100

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 12:52:04 +0200, Robert wrote:

> Hello.
> I have some quick time movies from an old OS 8.5 CD and I got the
> "Monsterhits" CD from Mac Donalds.
>
>
> Both are Qt Movies with Sorenson Compression.
> The video clips (played with xine) from mac donald have no picture but
> sound and the "Things Change - D. Yoakam.mov" from OS 8.6 cd plays but
> has some ugly drop outs where picture and sound gets interrupted for
> several seconds.
>
> All other video file formats play well:
> .MPG with AviPlayer,
> .mov, .mpeg with KMPlayer,
> .mov with MPlayer
>
> Is there any free solution?
>
> Many thanks for help,
> Robert
1) Ensure dma is selected in yast for your cdrom
2) Get the quicktime codecs from the mplayer site, install them and then
use mplayer