On 16 Aug 2001 19:00:38 -0400, Patrick Lam wrote: > Dominique Deleris writes, > > > I'd like to play QuickTime movies on my woody box, so I've > > installed the following packages: > > As others have written, most movies use the Sorenson codec, which is not > available at all for Linux. > > However, you can use WINE (or the Crossover plugin, when it's available, > at www.codeweavers.com) to run QuickTime for Windows, assuming that you do > have an i386 machine. The WINE in Debian is not new enough, though. You > need a more recent WINE. Once you have a recent WINE, you should be able > to just install QuickTime and run it.
The only quicktime I have managed to get to work under wine is of the 2.x series. Are you sure you're running the latest quicktime? Is this the same quicktime that let's you play, say: http://filmforcedownload.ign.com/finalfantasy/dream3_high.mov
