Linked by Iain Alexander on Thu 17th Apr 2003 07:28 UTC
Several days ago I wrote a rather scathing article about my utter dismay and disappoint with Mandrake 9.1 and by association, Linux as a whole. Since then I have had many many flames and equally as many agreeing emails (is there a simple opposite word for flame?) Since then I have been trying, really really trying to get my system working fully. But time and again I'm coming up against the same brick wall of (un)usability, computer esotericism and down right idiocy. 
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For the RedHat set, use the freshrpms.net xine, ogle and mplayer rpm files and yes, use apt so it figures out everything you need for you.
To get all those quicktime videos on the net going you just download these files
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/win32codecs.tar.bz2
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/qt6dlls.tar.bz2
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/qtextras.tar.bz2
Extract these and copy the files (not the subdirs or anything) into the /usr/lib/win32 directory.
Install the mplayer plugin after you install mplayer.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in-0....
If you do this and get the rpms from freshrpm you literally have to do NOTHING else to get Quicktime videos used on the apple.com/quicktime for example to work.
Watching the newest X2 trailer right now in another window.