Can't plan .mov files

[calibre97]

I've got everything I can think of updated, including w32codecs and Medibuntu repositories and updates, and I can't play .mov files. I can play WMV, MPG, and AVI but with .MOV I get:
1. Click on .MOV file to launch Kaffeine 0.8.6
-goes into Kaffeine codec installer>"codec package is already installed" infinite loop.
2. Right click .MOV file and select Open with...Mplayer movie player
-get error! "Cannot find codec for audio format 0x32414D57
3. Right click .MOV file and select Open with...VLC media player
-VLC opens and the progress slider moves but there's no video and no audio
4. Right click .MOV file and select Open with...KMPlayer
-using "play with Xine" I get a brief moment of "Player Xine buffering" but then goes to not running
-using "play with Ice Ape" I get nothing
-using "play with mplayer" I get a moment of "Player mplayer buffering" but then goes to not running
-using "play with gstreamer" I get nothing

So VLC gives no errors but nothing shows up. KMplayer tries but nothing shows up.

Thing is, I can play Quicktime trailers with the Mplayer plugin for Firefox 3. So I don't know what the deal is with .MOV files from the filesystem.

[lykwydchykyn]

Re: Can't plan .mov files

If you download one of the trailers that plays in firefox, will it play in mplayer from the filesystem? Quicktime movies are hit-and-miss for me. Try using the "file" command to determine what you can about Quicktime movies that play and what might be different about the ones that don't.

[rbrown3rd]

Re: Can't plan .mov files

I got the Quicktime moves to play using the VLC media player and the MediaPlayerConnectiviy plugin for Firefox 3. I used /usr/bin/wxvlc as the link to the player. That is the only way I could get them to play.