Quicktime stuff doesn't play

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 25 September 2012 23:45:05 William Scott Lockwood III did opine:

> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Thomas Kaiser <ubuntu at kaiser-linux.li> 
wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Confirmed. Crashes movie player for me in 12.10 beta.
> 
> Bug filed.

Thank you.

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