Quicktime stuff doesn't play

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 25 September 2012 23:43:01 Thomas Kaiser did opine:

> On 09/24/2012 06:45 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On 24 September 2012 17:38, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> >> My version is very old, and the scripts on that site will not install
> >> the much later version because its already installed. I removed it,
> >> which allowed the newer version to install, but must yet have the
> >> wrong plugin as now most of the vlc seems stripped away in the
> >> about, no m4v shows anyplace.
> >> 
> >> Still no joy in flatbush...
> > 
> > Are we once again trying to support your install of 10.04 with a weird
> > nonstandard kernel?
> 
> I don't think so.
> 
> The videos from this site http://3dtopo.com/lostPLA/ cant be played with
> Ubuntu.
> 
> I tried...
> 
> Intel64:~$ uname -a
> Linux Intel64 3.2.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 7 16:16:45 UTC
> 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> up to date.
> 
> Thomas

I also installed gxine & friends, which made a small difference on that 
site.  Now, after I enable the play, I get a report that gxine crashed.  
Repeat ad infinitum.

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