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TOPIC: QUICKTIME

Adding Quicktime movie support to Firefox running on Linux

24th January 2013

For whatever reason, my installation of Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10, didn't have QuickTime support added to Firefox by default. To make a website work near enough as it was intended, this needed to be remedied. The solution was to issue a command to install the missing software:

sudo apt-get install mplayer gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer

Mplayer is the main component here but running the above command adds all the required supporting packages too, so that a Firefox restart was all that needed to get things going.

Is Apple ditching Windows 2000?

11th October 2007

Having had a brainwave of using my Windows 2000 VM to play music without impacting the rest of my PC's working, I made the discovery that a bit of digging was required to find a version of iTunes and QuickTime that work with Win2K. Google delivered the goods, so here are the links:

iTunes for Win2K

QuickTime for Win2K

It all reminds me of a post that I wrote a few months back, but iTunes is now working and, thanks to VMware's Shared Folders functionality, using the host PC's digital music collection. I'll be seeing how the ring-fencing goes...

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