Re: [SLUG] Player for .mov and .rm recordings = ?I haven't

From: Ian Blenke (icblenke@nks.net)
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 18:47:48 EDT


Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> On Monday 25 August 2003 16:22, Eric Jahn wrote:
>
>>I have been successful with using mplayer/xine to view Quicktime movies
>>saved to disk, but never a "QTVR" web link with streaming content. Has
>>anyone gotten this to work? I've got an example (go to this link and click
>>on the multi-colored circle entitled: "See this hotel in virtual reality"
>>http://www.marriott.com/dpp/PropertyPage.asp?MarshaCode=ATLBR&EPCEC=InProce
>>ss&EPNAVCEC=InProcess
>>
>
> Mplayer latest version is a major upgrade in the number of different types of
> files it will function with.
>
> Will it do what you ask? That I do not know but maybe you should check out the
> web site.

QTVR is QuickTime Virtual Reality. It's a 3d viewer of a seemless column
of pictures in a 360 degree panoramic view.

No, mplayer will not play this. Quite simply, it's not a "video" format,
it's a fancy 3d jpg viewer.

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