setting quicktime up thru wine
 

ok i downloaded wine and installed, to check to make shure it will emulate i wined to and open up notepad.exe, so i know wine actually works! i downloaded the quick time 6 setup exe and i wined to it, it brought the setup screen up, but nothing ever happens... it just says quick time 6 setup in the top left corner like it should, and the screen is blue like it should be, but nothing happens past that! can someone please help me with the installation of quick time 6!


thanks

wine is very incomplete. You might be better off using another solution
to play quicktime files. There are several such solutions. MPlayer and xine
can both play files encoded with the sorenson codec. If you absolutely
must use the windows app be prepared to do a lot of hacking.

i wasnt actually goin to use a specific "QuickTime " file, i was going to use it as my video program... and everyone told me to use MPlayer but it wont install correctly... or im probably not doin somthing right... can you walk me thru the steps of installing MPlayer

Maybe but there are a few things that would help me.
I don't know what distro you are using.
Announce it to the world and put it in your profile.

Without that piece of information I wouldn't even know
where to begin helping you.

redhat 9!

Well here's a link to an rpm for you.
I got it from rpmfind.net
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/freshrpms/re...e2.fr.i386.rpm

Download it.
Open a terminal.
make sure you are in the same directory you downloaded the rpm to.
run the command
rpm -Uvh mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr.i386.rpm

Try putting your distro in your profile so no one ever has to ask you
for your distro again.

ok when i did that this is what happend....


[zexter@localhost MPlayer]$ rpm -Uvh mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr.i386.rpm
warning: mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
error: Failed dependencies:
aalib is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
alsa-lib is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
faad2 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
lame is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libaa.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libasound.so.2 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9) is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libdv is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libdv.so.2 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libdvdread is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libdvdread.so.3 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libfame is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
liblzo.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libmad.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libmp3lame.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libpostproc = 1.0-0.2.pre2.fr is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
libpostproc.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
lirc is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
lzo is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr
mplayer-fonts is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.2.pre2.fr

most of those things I don't think you will need so
you can try to force installation
or you can try to fill in those dependencies.

rpm -Uvh --nodeps <file>

seriously, if you can't install MPlayer, the chances of getting wine going are itsy bitsy... One thing though, INSTALL MPLAYER FROM SOURCE. it is SO much quicker than rpms