Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 16:10:01 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: QuickTime on FreeBSD! Message-ID: <0GWH00B3O9CN74@mail-mta2.service.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020521214907.A14319@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20020521214907.A14319@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Tuesday 21 May 2002 03:49 pm, you wrote: > 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 > > How did you extract the source rpm? It just gives me a lot of errors when trying to rpm -i the package. -- Anish Mistry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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