[25575] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.2.29: mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erica H Peterson)
Mon Apr 5 12:10:52 2004
Message-Id: <200404051610.i35GAl8N028005@merriweather.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 12:10:47 -0400
From: Erica H Peterson <astronut@mit.edu>
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: merriweather.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.2.29 (with mkserv)
Display type: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15)
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
A user came in to the OLC office complaining that he could not view
realplayer video files. We tried looking at a movie trailer in the realplayer
format, and it crashed his Mozilla. He was also wondering if he could view
Quicktime versions instead with xanim. After he left, I tried the realplayer
formats. On one of the Dell machines in the OLC office, I got the error:
"this page contains information of a type (audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin)
that can only be viewed with the appropriate plug-in. click ok to download
plugin."
In the "Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Helper Applications" menu, I saw an
entry for type "audio/x-pn-realaudio" and tried adding a new entry for
"audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin" but with the same path to realplay
(/mit/infoagents/arch/@sys/bin/realplay), and got the exact same error as
before. I tried the same thing on a SunBlade workstation in the office
(both with and without the addition of the "-plugin" entry) and got a
different error:
"invalid file version number"
At this point, I gave up on Realplayer and tried setting up xanim to view
Quicktime files, again trying with movie trailers as an example. I added
an entry in the "Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Helper Applications" menu
for files of type "video/quicktime" and gave it the following path:
"/mit/graphics/bin/xanim". I also ran "add graphics". When I tried
viewing Quicktime files on the apple.com site, I was prompted to download
Quicktime instead of running xanim. When I tried viewing Quicktime files
from other sources than apple.com, the download manager popped up and a new
window opened, but no video played. The file had downloaded to /tmp, so I
tried opening it from the command line, and got the following error:
athena% xanim WALKINGT_dt1_hi.mov &
[1] 28003
athena% XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C) 1991-1999. All Rights Reserved
Video Codec: Sorenson Video not yet supported.(E18)
Unknown(and unsupported) Audio Codec: QDM2(0x51444d32).
Notice: Video and Audio are present, but not yet supported.
Usage:
XAnim [options] anim [ [options] anim ... ]
-h lists some common options, but may be out of date.
See xanim.readme or the man page for detailed help.
What's wrong:
realplay and xanim don't seem to be working correctly
What should have happened:
video played
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
