Rails - Sep 2005 - [OT] Rails intro video MOVs - what Open Source player to use?

Hi Railers,

Slightly OT question here, but I have a friend who needs to watch the Rails 
intro movs, but is on Linux and has no way of using an actual Quicktime 
player.

I''m also primarily on Linux, and remember having troubles getting the
original
"rails_setup.mov" video to work, so had to watch it on my ancient
Windows
laptop.  Nether the original mov or the new version with sound will work for 
me in Totem, Mplayer, KMplayer or Xine, which seems to have left me out of 
options to suggest to my friend, who as far as I know, doesn''t even
have
Windows installed anywhere.

Can anyone suggest an Open Source video viewer that is capable of viewing the 
Rails videos?  Perhaps there''s an MPEG (or even AVI) version kicking
around
somewhere?

I know Rails is quite Apple-centric in some ways, but considering it''s
Open
Source, it would be good if heavy Open Source users could also watch the 
intro video without having to jump through too many hoops, reboot in a 
different operating system, or use a proprietary media player.  Open Source 
video apps can cope with almost anything these day, so why have the Rails 
videos in a format that causes problems with viewing for Open Source users?

Just my 2p, but if anyone could suggest a good way of watching the intro movs 
on Linux, that''d be great.

Cheers,

~Dave

-- 

Dave Silvester
Rent-A-Monkey Website Development
Web: http://www.rentamonkey.com/

Hallelujah, I''m not the only one.

mplayer, configured with up to the second codecs, might work.  I''m
lucky
enough to have crossover office installed with itunes and quicktime, the
plugin pops up in my browser just like it would on (mac|windows).

I had intermittent success with the quicktime files in mplayer before
them.  Avi or mpg would be great if iMovie or whatever supports them..

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/ <-- done me well (I get IE6 on
linux for compatibility checks while designing)

-Matt B

 
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:31 +0100, Dave Silvester wrote:
> Hi Railers,
> 
> Slightly OT question here, but I have a friend who needs to watch the Rails
> intro movs, but is on Linux and has no way of using an actual Quicktime 
> player.
> 
> I''m also primarily on Linux, and remember having troubles getting
the original
> "rails_setup.mov" video to work, so had to watch it on my ancient
Windows
> laptop.  Nether the original mov or the new version with sound will work
for
> me in Totem, Mplayer, KMplayer or Xine, which seems to have left me out of 
> options to suggest to my friend, who as far as I know, doesn''t
even have
> Windows installed anywhere.
> 
> Can anyone suggest an Open Source video viewer that is capable of viewing
the
> Rails videos?  Perhaps there''s an MPEG (or even AVI) version
kicking around
> somewhere?
> 
> I know Rails is quite Apple-centric in some ways, but considering
it''s Open
> Source, it would be good if heavy Open Source users could also watch the 
> intro video without having to jump through too many hoops, reboot in a 
> different operating system, or use a proprietary media player.  Open Source
> video apps can cope with almost anything these day, so why have the Rails 
> videos in a format that causes problems with viewing for Open Source users?
> 
> Just my 2p, but if anyone could suggest a good way of watching the intro
movs
> on Linux, that''d be great.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> ~Dave
>

Dave Silvester wrote:
>Hi Railers,
>
>Slightly OT question here, but I have a friend who needs to watch the Rails 
>intro movs, but is on Linux and has no way of using an actual Quicktime 
>player.
>
>I''m also primarily on Linux, and remember having troubles getting
the original
>"rails_setup.mov" video to work, so had to watch it on my ancient
Windows
>laptop.  Nether the original mov or the new version with sound will work for
>me in Totem, Mplayer, KMplayer or Xine, which seems to have left me out of 
>options to suggest to my friend, who as far as I know, doesn''t even
have
>Windows installed anywhere.
>  
>
Obviously you haven''t set up Mplayer correctly.
Get and install w32codecs package.
I am using Mplayer in Debian and Rails'' movs are playing fine.
If you''re using Debian, add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list

#unofficial
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main

apt-get update
apt-get install mplayer w32codecs

--
Karol Hosiawa

On 23.9.2005, at 14.31, Dave Silvester wrote:
>
> Can anyone suggest an Open Source video viewer that is capable of  
> viewing the
> Rails videos?
I was going to suggest VLC [1] but it seems that even it can''t decode  
the video, just the audio (at least on OS X). Anyway, it''s a great  
cross-platform player that supports a really wide repertoire of formats.

//jarkko


[1] http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

//jarkko

--
Jarkko Laine
http://jlaine.net
http://odesign.fi



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On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:31 +0100, Dave Silvester wrote:
> Hi Railers,
Hi Dave,
> Slightly OT question here, but I have a friend who needs to watch the Rails
> intro movs, but is on Linux and has no way of using an actual Quicktime 
> player.
> 
> I''m also primarily on Linux, and remember having troubles getting
the original
> "rails_setup.mov" video to work, so had to watch it on my ancient
Windows
> laptop.  Nether the original mov or the new version with sound will work
for
> me in Totem
I just was just able to watch
http://www.rubyonrails.org/media/videos/rails_take2_with_sound.mov in
Totem just fine-- sound and all. Are you sure you have libquicktime
installed?

HTH,

Howard

On Friday 23 Sep 2005 12:52, Karol Hosiawa wrote:
> Obviously you haven''t set up Mplayer correctly.
> Get and install w32codecs package.
Got it already - version 20050216, which is the latest one in the Gentoo 
unstable (~x86) tree.  I mostly run stable (x86), but for some things where 
stability is less important than bleeding-edge-ness (eg. video file 
compatability), I run the unstable versions.
> I am using Mplayer in Debian and Rails'' movs are playing fine.
> If you''re using Debian, add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list
I do have the latest win32codecs installed, with the quicktime use flag. 
I''ve
never encountered any problems with any Quicktime files except the Rails 
ones.

I have just updated my libquicktime from stable (0.9.4) to unstable (0.9.7), 
but that hasn''t fixed it either.  KMplayer and Xine just won''t
play it,
Mplayer and Totem crash.  Still no dice.  :-S

~Dave

-- 

Dave Silvester
Rent-A-Monkey Website Development
Web: http://www.rentamonkey.com/