Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 21:49:07 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: QuickTime on FreeBSD! Message-ID: <20020521214907.A14319@lpt.ens.fr>
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I got Apple's QuickTime Player to install and play a movie under FreeBSD, using wine: the current ports version, and also CodeWeavers preview 6 compiled from source. The main issue seems to be that the player requires knowledge of the machine which under linux is obtained from /proc/cpuinfo and that code (in misc/cpu.c in the wine tree) is ifdef'd out for systems other than linux. So I un-ifdef'd it, and changed /proc/cpuinfo to /compat/linux/proc/cpuinfo (I have linprocfs enabled on my system). I imagine, for those who don't have linprocfs, some default values could be assumed? After that, quicktime can start up, and open a movie, and performance is comparable to under linux. (A roughly 640x480 movie plays quite smoothly. But not in full-screen mode.) An issue is that the window management is terrible, one has to do a lot of keyboard/mouse juggling to hit the right menus and start playback (this is an issue under linux too) and the rest of the screen, and sometimes even the quicktime window itself, gets badly messed up (not an issue under linux.) Also, once or twice the system locked up -- not totally, ie the mouse pointer could be moved, but I couldn't do anything, not even kill the X session with ctrl-alt-bksp or access a virtual console. Has anyone else had success with quicktime/wine? - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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