Subject: Re: Anything in pkgsrc for QuickTime?
To: Timothy A. Musson <timothy.musson@zin-tech.com>
From: Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/20/2004 18:48:24
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:36:02AM -0400, Timothy A. Musson wrote:
> At 07:54 AM 10/20/04 , Richard Rauch wrote:
> >Is there anything in pkgsrc that can play QuickTime reliably?
> >
> >I've got a couple of .mov files (QuickTime, I think).  The only software
> >that even looks promising for playing them is mplayer.  It does the
> >video alright, but I can't hear the audio.
> >
> >Is this one of those cases where I have to manually try a hundred
> >or so random -aid <n> parameters to find the audio channel?  Or
 [...]
> I can't be of too much help, but:
> 
> There is a great program called GSpot that identifies the audio and video codecs used in a given file. [...]

Hm.  Maybe I misunderstand, but I don't see how knowing the codec
is going to help.


Thanks.

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