Linux Quicktime replacement for use with lynda.com?

[Dan Singer]

I might want to try some online training from lynda.com, offered (on
pilot program) thru OIT.  Apparently, Quicktime is required to run the
videos.  I'm told that there are Quicktime clones for Linux that might
work for this.  Can anyone recommend a likely candidate for this?  My
most likely Linux platform is Ubuntu, if that matters.  Thanks!

http://www.lynda.com/home/SystemReq.aspx

Dan

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[Robert G. Brown]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Dan Singer wrote:

> I might want to try some online training from lynda.com, offered (on
> pilot program) thru OIT.  Apparently, Quicktime is required to run the
> videos.  I'm told that there are Quicktime clones for Linux that might
> work for this.  Can anyone recommend a likely candidate for this?  My
> most likely Linux platform is Ubuntu, if that matters.  Thanks!
>
> http://www.lynda.com/home/SystemReq.aspx

You could try cedega.  It does a lot of things like this for the gaming
community, but I don't know if it includes QT at the level required to
run online videos.

My own personal favorite is VMware Workstation (an awesome product, now
reportedly free for Duke use on a site license basis) with XP Pro
loaded.  XP Pro makes a great linux application.  You can freeze it and
make it virusproof (at the minor expense of it complaining about needing
updates at boot time).  It's the only way I can get into Duke on a VPN
hookup from home with my x86_64 laptop, since OIT still does not fully
support linux vpn connections from off campus, no matter how hard I cry
and moan and whine.  (I'm on the verge of setting up my personal desktop
at Duke as a private ssh tun device VPN as I'm constantly running into
an inability to read e.g. AIP or APS journal articles from home, but
this is obviously a silly waste of time to work around what SHOULD be a
properly maintained institution-level function.)

    rgb

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[Joseph Tate-3]

Dan Singer wrote:

> I might want to try some online training from lynda.com, offered (on
> pilot program) thru OIT.  Apparently, Quicktime is required to run the
> videos.  I'm told that there are Quicktime clones for Linux that might
> work for this.  Can anyone recommend a likely candidate for this?  My
> most likely Linux platform is Ubuntu, if that matters.  Thanks!
>
> http://www.lynda.com/home/SystemReq.aspx
>
> Dan
>
>  

MPlayer with all of the good bad and ugly codecs should be able to play it.

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[Robert G. Brown]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Joseph Tate wrote:

>
> Dan Singer wrote:
>> I might want to try some online training from lynda.com, offered (on
>> pilot program) thru OIT.  Apparently, Quicktime is required to run the
>> videos.  I'm told that there are Quicktime clones for Linux that might
>> work for this.  Can anyone recommend a likely candidate for this?  My
>> most likely Linux platform is Ubuntu, if that matters.  Thanks!
>>
>> http://www.lynda.com/home/SystemReq.aspx
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>
> MPlayer with all of the good bad and ugly codecs should be able to play it.

I'm having a bit of trouble with Fedora 10 with codecs even at the level
of flash, even with everything loaded and a cheap WinXX codec I actually
bought.  So take that "should" as having a sort of a wistful cast to it
until you find out that it actually will...

In the meantime, I can watch roughly 1/4 of the youtube videos I try to
watch, with nothing that obviously differentiates the ones that work and
the ones that don't, with either the adobe flash or gnash or with totem
with the GB&U stack of codecs loaded.  9 seemed more functional, so far,
in at least this arena.

Advice as always welcome, but it's not critical.  Youtube is more "for
fun" than work for me, even though the videos I was most recently trying
to watch were of supercooled water freezing (great fun, check them
out:-).

>>Sort<< of work for a physicist, right?

    rgb

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[Joseph Tate-3]

Robert G. Brown wrote:

>
> I'm having a bit of trouble with Fedora 10 with codecs even at the level
> of flash, even with everything loaded and a cheap WinXX codec I actually
> bought.  So take that "should" as having a sort of a wistful cast to it
> until you find out that it actually will...
>
> In the meantime, I can watch roughly 1/4 of the youtube videos I try to
> watch, with nothing that obviously differentiates the ones that work and
> the ones that don't, with either the adobe flash or gnash or with totem
> with the GB&U stack of codecs loaded.  9 seemed more functional, so far,
> in at least this arena.
>
> Advice as always welcome, but it's not critical.  Youtube is more "for
> fun" than work for me, even though the videos I was most recently trying
> to watch were of supercooled water freezing (great fun, check them
> out:-).

<snide comment about $distro>

I just tried a few of the demo movies at
http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=279, and they came up
fine in the mplayer browser plugin that came with my x86_64 Foresight
Linux install.

My browser's about:plugins page has a section on QuickTime files, and
the mplayerplug-in loaded.

For Ubuntu, you probably have to enable the non-free repository (or
whatever they call it) and install the "ugly" codec pack.  For Fedora,
I'm sure something similar is required.  Flash has nothing to do with
the ability to play .mov or similar files.

For flash, regarding youtube videos, I haven't had much problem since
10.0.15.3 and nspluginwrapper 1.1.0.  I think that if your distro isn't
providing reliable packages for Adobe's Flash Player, that I'd just
download the static-linked binaries from adobe.  I had serious problems
with earlier flash betas and nspluginwrapper versions on x86_64 though.

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[seth vidal-3]

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 17:25 -0500, Joseph Tate wrote:

> Robert G. Brown wrote:
> >
> > I'm having a bit of trouble with Fedora 10 with codecs even at the level
> > of flash, even with everything loaded and a cheap WinXX codec I actually
> > bought.  So take that "should" as having a sort of a wistful cast to it
> > until you find out that it actually will...
> >
> > In the meantime, I can watch roughly 1/4 of the youtube videos I try to
> > watch, with nothing that obviously differentiates the ones that work and
> > the ones that don't, with either the adobe flash or gnash or with totem
> > with the GB&U stack of codecs loaded.  9 seemed more functional, so far,
> > in at least this arena.
> >
> > Advice as always welcome, but it's not critical.  Youtube is more "for
> > fun" than work for me, even though the videos I was most recently trying
> > to watch were of supercooled water freezing (great fun, check them
> > out:-).
> <snide comment about $distro>
>

Excuse me? snide comment?

-sv


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[Bill Day-2]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Robert G. Brown wrote: (exerpt from earlier
thread...)

> and moan and whine.  (I'm on the verge of setting up my personal desktop
> at Duke as a private ssh tun device VPN as I'm constantly running into
> an inability to read e.g. AIP or APS journal articles from home, but
> this is obviously a silly waste of time to work around what SHOULD be a
> properly maintained institution-level function.)
>
>   rgb


While waiting for vpn to work, Anyone tried the opensource "libx" firefox
plugin for journal viewing? I bet it would work in firefox on almost any
linux distro. (Or solaris, Dan ;0)

http://library.duke.edu/research/tools/libx.html

Once plug-in is installed, when you get to a link to a journal that
normally require VPN/duke-ip, you right-click and select bottom-most item:

  "Goto <blah> via Duke University EZProxy"

If it works, I think you might find this better since it simply
establishes the proxy connection only for that one URL, and so avoids
having a virtual ip vpn'ed into the Duke network.

  Bill Day

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[Robert G. Brown]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Bill Day wrote:

> While waiting for vpn to work, Anyone tried the opensource "libx" firefox
> plugin for journal viewing? I bet it would work in firefox on almost any
> linux distro. (Or solaris, Dan ;0)
>
> http://library.duke.edu/research/tools/libx.html
>
> Once plug-in is installed, when you get to a link to a journal that normally
> require VPN/duke-ip, you right-click and select bottom-most item:
>
> "Goto <blah> via Duke University EZProxy"
>
> If it works, I think you might find this better since it simply establishes
> the proxy connection only for that one URL, and so avoids having a virtual ip
> vpn'ed into the Duke network.

Brilliant, Bill!  If this works, it would be all I really need -- nearly
everything else I do doesn't require privileges or I can set up a custom
ssh tunnel to get them.

I wonder why this isn't better publicized?  Was there an announcement or
something that I missed?  I've been grousing for years now, and if this
works my blood pressure may actually come down a notch;-)

   Kudos!

     rgb

(Can't test it until I go home, but I've installed it already.)

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[Joseph Tate-3]

seth vidal wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 17:25 -0500, Joseph Tate wrote:
>  
>> <snide comment about $distro>
>>    
>
> Excuse me? snide comment?
>
> -sv
>
>
>  

It's a macro.  Insert your own innuendo. :)  I don't actually have a
snide comment to make about the distro in question.  Of course, when you
have to explain the joke...

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[Dan Singer]

Thanks for the responses.  I'm doing a bit of testing, though so far
am not getting good results.  Might have more time to mess with it
next week.

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[Dustin Minnich]

Dan:

If it hasn't been mentioned already, Ubuntu has a libquicktime package.
Maybe fedora does as well. It may or may not help in playing MOVs, I'm
honestly am not sure because I've ever needed to play one.

Other choices.
VLC - Plays darn near anything.
ffmpeg  gstreamer plugins also plays darn near anything.
Mplayer with the w32 codecs.
May want to do a package search for x264.  I think the newer apple stuff
uses that video codec.

This guy usually makes a good write up on how to prepare a fedora box
for general desktop use
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html

good luck.

Dustin Minnich
Nicholas IT
613-8148



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> Thanks for the responses.  I'm doing a bit of testing, though so far
> am not getting good results.  Might have more time to mess with it
> next week.
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[Simons Jr, Robert G]

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Dan:

If it hasn't been mentioned already, Ubuntu has a libquicktime package.
Maybe fedora does as well. It may or may not help in playing MOVs, I'm
honestly am not sure because I've ever needed to play one.

Other choices.
VLC - Plays darn near anything.
ffmpeg  gstreamer plugins also plays darn near anything.
Mplayer with the w32 codecs.
May want to do a package search for x264.  I think the newer apple stuff
uses that video codec.

This guy usually makes a good write up on how to prepare a fedora box
for general desktop use
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html

good luck.

Dustin Minnich
Nicholas IT
613-8148



Dan Singer wrote:
> Thanks for the responses.  I'm doing a bit of testing, though so far
> am not getting good results.  Might have more time to mess with it
> next week.
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[Brian Johnson-10]

Robert,

You can unsubscribe by visitng the list list information page at https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/dulug.

Sorry to see you go.

Best,
Brian

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Dan:

If it hasn't been mentioned already, Ubuntu has a libquicktime package.
Maybe fedora does as well. It may or may not help in playing MOVs, I'm
honestly am not sure because I've ever needed to play one.

Other choices.
VLC - Plays darn near anything.
ffmpeg  gstreamer plugins also plays darn near anything.
Mplayer with the w32 codecs.
May want to do a package search for x264.  I think the newer apple stuff
uses that video codec.

This guy usually makes a good write up on how to prepare a fedora box
for general desktop use
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html

good luck.

Dustin Minnich
Nicholas IT
613-8148



Dan Singer wrote:
> Thanks for the responses.  I'm doing a bit of testing, though so far
> am not getting good results.  Might have more time to mess with it
> next week.
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[Dan Singer]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Joseph Tate wrote:
 > For Ubuntu, you probably have to enable the non-free repository (or whatever
 > they call it) and install the "ugly" codec pack.

Ah, that seems to be the trick -- at least that's got it working at
home.  Thanks!

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