[oclug] Mandrake files for bankruptcy protection.

[Shad Young]

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 15:31, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:50:19AM -0500, Shad Young wrote:
> > This is a very odd piece of software. I fail to understand any benefit
> > it may provide, except for a few people who need the one or two plug-ins
> > not yet supported by Linux. Missing from the base install is the
> > Quicktime Plug-in... (sure its supported, but not part of their
> > installer and is fiddly to get working properly (never mind the abysmal
> > frame rate)
> 
> Actually Quicktime is supported just fine...  Perhaps you tried a
> previous version which didn't work nearly as well?  At any rate here's a
> rather large screenshot, but you'll note there is a quicktime movie
> playing embeded in Galeon...
> http://ben.reser.org/vitals/occipital_snapshot6.png

Yeah I saw that :) Can take the same picture, once a second heh heh...
Actually I am beginning to suspect there is some other issue with video
that may be associated with my particular card (G4 MX440) though I have
not discovered any issues with it on-line. Its Linux performance is
terrible across the board, games, QT and DVD. Smokes in the glass house
though and I am using Nvidia's drivers.
 
> > Who needs WMP 6.4? That is 3 years out of date and does not support
> > modern codecs.
> 
> I haven't run into anything it won't play yet.  It does have the ability
> to update it's codecs just like pretty much all of the players do.

All I get (in windows98 and Linux) is "downloading codec, download
failed, there is no supported codec"... quick upgrade to 7 and problem
goes away...
 
> At any rate I didn't mention Crossover to suggest it was good software,
> though I do like it.  It was simply an example of inexplicable thinking
> regarding the fonts package...
> 

Sorry, Ben, I probably should have mentioned that my post was not
responding to yours at all, just a minor rant on Crossover :)

Shad

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