Quicktime Trailers for PPC problems

[Claudio Carlquist]

I´ve just installed 'mplayer-fonts_3.5-2_all.deb' and
'mplayer-powerpc_1.0-pre5-0.7.agx1_powerpc.deb' got from
http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/debian/mplayer/ on
my iBook G3. I know that I shouldn´t mix Debian packages with Ubuntu´s
ones, but so far Mplayer is running fine on my machine. The only
drawnback is apt-get´s complaints about those packages and the only
way to install something else on my machine is removing them at first.
So, by now I just have those packages on my HD and keep installing
them anytime they´re removed by synaptic or apt-get...


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
> 
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