On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Harry Putnam<rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > I'm having a heck of a time getting firefox setup so it can handle > quicktime videos. > > I understand I need mplayer to be installed but haven't been able to > emerge it. > I'm hoping someone will recognize what this problem is... I certainly > do not. But I do see others having trouble related to multi-core > machines and mplayer... So NOTE: my hardware is not Multi-core. Its > an intel 3.06 Ghz with 2gb of ram. > > Maybe its some thing related to the use flags... but there are so many > listed as + and - ones... it's just confusing to me. > > Displayed below are first the Use flags that come up and then the tail > of the build attempt. Use the provided url to view the full output if > desired. > > (The massive full build.log and environment report can be viewed at: > www.jtan.com/~reader/mpfailure/mp.cgi) > > (first the use flags that come up) > > [ebuild N ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p20090731-r1 USE="X a52 > aac alsa ass cddb cdio dirac dts dv dvdnav enca faac faad gif iconv > live mmx mp2 network osdmenu rar real rtc samba schroedinger shm speex > theora tremor truetype unicode x264 xv xvid -3dnow -3dnowext -aalib > (-altivec) -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags > -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -directfb -doc -dvb -dvd -dxr3 -encode > -esd -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gmplayer -ipv6 -jack -joystick -jpeg -ladspa > -libcaca -lirc -lzo -mad -md5sum -mmxext -mng -mp3 -nas -nut -openal > -opencore-amr -opengl -oss -png -pnm -pulseaudio -pvr -quicktime > -radio -sdl -sse -sse2 -ssse3 -svga -teletext -tga -v4l -v4l2 -vdpau > -vidix -vorbis -win32codecs -xanim -xinerama -xscreensaver -xvmc > -zoran" >
http://bugs.gentoo.org/213836 Seems to possibly be related to win32codecs and/or quicktime USE flag. Try enabling one or both of them and see if that helps.
