playing quicktime 7 movies

Steven Willoughby steven.willoughby at utah.edu
Thu Jan 18 02:08:46 GMT 2007


Aaron Toponce wrote:
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> QT7 also offers H.264 high definition video, which is cool.  I would
> love to see H.264 in free codecs, like theora.
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ffmpeg (the mpeg library that mplayer uses) has been able to decode 
H.264 since before QuickTime 7.0 was released, according to 
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/. I don't have any problem playing the HD 
movie trailers on apple.com with mplayerplug-in.

Steven




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