MPEG-4 Movies

[Marek Pawinski]

ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:35 +0200, Marek Pawinski wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>How does one go about playing mpeg-4 movies with the mp4 extension ?
>>I downloaded some open source TV episodes with MS in them and weird 
>>enough they made them a mission to get to play.
>>
>>Marek
>>
> 
> (What do you mean by "with MS in them"?  I couldn't understand that
> sentence.)
> 
> MP4 files are either media files in Quicktime ".mov" file format (which
> is the new stander file format for the MPEG organization) or audio only
> files using AAC (Advanced Audio Coding, just like the ones from Apples's
> iTunes Internet store).  I'm not sure, but I think AAC is also a
> Quicktime file.
> 
> 
> MPlayer, and Totem (with the Xine pack-end) should play them fine.  Just
> install the packages "totem-xine" and "w32codecs"¹ and try playing them
> with Totem.
> 
> Ziyad.
> 
> Footnotes:
>      1. http://ubuntuguide.org/#codecs
> 
I mean MS=Mike Shuttleworth :-) so looks like i am not the only one with 
this problem. I am using totem-xine, totem-gstreamer does not play a 
large selection of files if i remember correctly from my previous xperience.