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Date:      Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:23:49 -0400
From:      Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
To:        Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>
Cc:        Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Looking for quicktime codecs?
Message-ID:  <20010415122349.A89405@numachi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010414222315.A1052@nc.rr.com>; from aa8vb@nc.rr.com on Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:23:15PM -0400
References:  <20010414185924.A34906@tigerfish2.my.domain> <20010414222315.A1052@nc.rr.com>

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On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:23:15PM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote:
> Bruce Burden:
>  |
>  | When I try to play a quicktime (well the package says I need quicktime,
>  | it ends .mov), I get the following message:
>  |
>  |Can't load the codec
> 
>  |quicktime_codec_SVQ1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>  |directory FileMOV::read_header: unsupported video codec
>  |
>  |   Any ideas where I might find the quicktime_codec)SVQ1.so file?
> 
> What player are you using for Quicktimes (inquiring minds want to know) ;-)

That looks like it's the Sorensen Video Codec, which is proprietory.

Quicktime movies can use any number of video/audio codecs, and most
authoring tools by default use the proprietory ones, forcing
end-users to use 'licensed' players...

But, some Quicktime movies are 'safe'.  I used 'xanim', even if it
can't play all of them, it tells me what codec it's built with.

> Randall
> 
> -- 
> Randall Hopper
> aa8vb@nc.rr.com

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