Viewing Quick Time videos on Linux?
I have two dvd's that use Quick Time. (Yes, they are rather old.) I wondered if there was any way of viewing them? Is there an alternative QT that could help here? Or would it depend solely of finding someone using Windows or Apple? Bev
On Sat, 24 Jun 2023, 09:02 Bev Nicolson, <lumos@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
I have two dvd's that use Quick Time. (Yes, they are rather old.) I
Mplayer will play quick time video *files*, although I've never tried it on quicktime *dvds*. Worth a try. May also need libdvdnav4. Mplayer on the command line needs mplayer dvd://1 or the appropriate number to find the right DVD title. You might also need a symlink to /dev/dvd to point to your actual DVD device. Regards, Srdjan
On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 09:59:38 +0100 Srdjan Todorovic <todorovic.s@googlemail.com> allegedly wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jun 2023, 09:02 Bev Nicolson, <lumos@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
I have two dvd's that use Quick Time. (Yes, they are rather old.) I
Mplayer will play quick time video *files*, although I've never tried it on quicktime *dvds*. Worth a try.
I'd reach for handbrake. it can handle anything that ffmpeg can and it gives an intuitive GUI. I use it to rip all my DVDs to local MP4 files. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mick Morgan gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312 blog: baldric.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 at 12:56, mick <mbm@rlogin.net> wrote:
I'd reach for handbrake. it can handle anything that ffmpeg can and it gives an intuitive GUI. I use it to rip all my DVDs to local MP4 files.
I don't know. Mplayer doesn't get enough love these days from users - it's fantastic software, and it needs more promotion :) Last time I tried Handbrake, it wouldn't work - although that was about a year ago and I forget what happened. The time before (many years ago) I used it, it was fine. One could use Tdarr too for transcoding, config was a bit weird, but I don't think it could access "external media".
On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 13:03:38 +0100 Srdjan Todorovic <todorovic.s@googlemail.com> allegedly wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 at 12:56, mick <mbm@rlogin.net> wrote:
I'd reach for handbrake. it can handle anything that ffmpeg can and it gives an intuitive GUI. I use it to rip all my DVDs to local MP4 files.
I don't know. Mplayer doesn't get enough love these days from users - it's fantastic software, and it needs more promotion :)
:-) I know, but sometimes life is just too short to faff about. Compare for example my note from 2007 about using mencoder to rip DVDs for PSP https://baldric.net/2007/11/04/ripping-dvds-to-a-sony-psp-on-linux/ where I used the command line in a bash script #!/bin/bash # # script to encode DVD to MPEG4 video for PSP # # $1 = track number, $2 = title # mencoder dvd://$1 -dvd-device /dev/hda -alang en -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of lavf -lavcopts threads=2:aglobal=1:vglobal=1: vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect:vbitrate=500:acodec=aac -af volume=10,lavcresample=24000 -vf scale=320:240,harddup -lavfopts format=psp:i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames -o $2.mp4 # end of script to using handbrake where I just select DVD source and then encoder preset and leave it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mick Morgan gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312 blog: baldric.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------
I would reach for vlc in this situation.
On 24 Jun 2023, at 09:02, Bev Nicolson <lumos@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
I have two dvd's that use Quick Time. (Yes, they are rather old.) I wondered if there was any way of viewing them? Is there an alternative QT that could help here? Or would it depend solely of finding someone using Windows or Apple?
Bev
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M player wouldn't even open (fatal errors with the default skin it said) so I tried vlc with one of them. Again, a bunch of errors [it's an interactive disc, but seeing those elements is not vital] but then it played the video. so I call that a win. Will try the other disc later when I've found it (tsk) and report back. Bev On 24/06/2023 12:20, Susan Spence wrote:
I would reach for vlc in this situation.
On 24 Jun 2023, at 09:02, Bev Nicolson <lumos@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
I have two dvd's that use Quick Time. (Yes, they are rather old.) I wondered if there was any way of viewing them? Is there an alternative QT that could help here? Or would it depend solely of finding someone using Windows or Apple?
Bev
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