Quicktime Trailers for PPC problems

[Victor Ng]

One more thing - has anyone been able to build the MPlayer-Firefox
plugin to get in-browser video streams working?

Is there any other way to get in-browser video?  I'm trying to setup
this machine for a computer novice.

vic


On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 07:29:44 -0500, Victor Ng <crankycoder at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to get MPlayer installed on the PPC version of Ubuntu, but
> I'm not having much luck.  I've never tried installing MPlayer from
> source before - so I may be doing something entirely stupid, but I
> don't _think_ I am.
> 
> The build instructions I'm using are the ones at:
> 
> http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/hack/ubuntu.txt
> 
> I'm configuring and compiling doing the usual:
> 
>  ./configure --enable-gui ;make clean; make; sudo make install
> 
> MPG video and audio work fine - I can still watch the dancing monkey
> boy with no problem.  :)
> 
> However- I'm able to play Quicktime Trailers and _see_ the
> video stream, but I don't seem to have the audio codec to support the
> trailer.
> 
> The error I'm getting seems to be popular on Google:
> 
> "Requested audio codec family [qdmc] (afm=qtaudio) not available"
> 
> But I'm unable to find a solution to this problem.  Does anyone know
> if this is a PowerPC specific problem or if it's just something I've
> misconfigured?
> 
> vic
>