On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:17:44PM -0500, Dave Huang wrote:
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> QuickTime is basically a file format for multimedia... whether mplayer
> can play the contents depends on what codecs were used to encode the
> file. Here's a list of the audio codecs mplayer supports:
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html#audio-codecs

Ah, I see.


> There's no native support for one of the more popular audio codecs
> used in QuickTime files, QDesign. However, mplayer can use the Windows
> QuickTime DLLs to decode it on i386 (maybe amd64 too? I have no idea).

I think that there is some "in principle" work towards i386 support
in a running NetBSD/amd64.  I'll look into it.

Thanks.

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