On 29 Aug 2009, at 00:05, Paul Hartman wrote:
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.
...
(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.
What he said.
I'm surprised you emerged mplayer with USE="-quicktime", since the
purpose of doing so is to play Quicktime videos.
:P
You probably also want "mmxext sse sse2 mp3" - I think the first 3
should / may improve performance and the latter is quite ubiquitous,
so it seems silly to be without it.
Stroller.
