crossover plugin

[lowell]

Well, shucks!
thx for the input, anyway...

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Zscoundrel wrote:

> Crossover is pretty cool, and their support is pretty good, but I was 
> NEVER able to get quicktime to install properly.  I did get a lot of the 
> other plugins to install and some of them worked really well, but 
> quicktime never worked!
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> I tried it under 3 different versions of RH and I tried it with netscape 
> 6.2 & 7, 7.1, 7.2  and mozilla 1.2.1.  Support was baffled and they 
> ended up extending my 6 month support for 18 months because they never 
> could get QT to install. 
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> lowell wrote:
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> >Yes, as always when I make a complaint about lack of documentation in a 
> >post, I find it IMMEDIATELY after hitting the send button...
> >Xover plugin isn't a plugin at all; it's a plugin installer, manager and 
> >enabler. You tell the manager part of it what you want to use and it goes 
> >out, gets it, installs it, and uses just enough of WINE to get it to 
> >decode your images, videos, etc. for you.
> >	HOWEVER, I mostly wanted to use quicktime, and it tries to install 
> >QT6 for me, but in the middle it says "There's a newer installer; let's 
> >use it instead!", brings up the new installer, and walks me through the 
> >installation, but nothing really gets installed. There's a request for 
> >which drive-and-path-to-it to install it on, and I'd bet that's where 
> >things are getting tangled up, 'cause it expects the path to start w/ C:. 
> >At any rate, QT does not show in the "installed software" panel of the 
> >controller afterward, and Apple's trailers still won't play (where this 
> >whole thing started.)
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> >	Now what? Try to force QT6 instead? Prolly wouldn't help this 
> >particular need, 'cause all the trailers require the latest and greatest, 
> >I imagine... Wait for the XC folx to untangle the new codec? How's their 
> >project at keeping up with Mr. Sorensen, et al? Guess I'll find out...
> >
> >thx1138, BK, for your help!
> >
> > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Brian Kelsay wrote:
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> >>lowell wrote:
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> >>>   OK, I just downloaded crossover plugin's trial version and 
> >>>installed it. During the installation process it found mozilla and his 
> >>>plugin directories and did whatever it thought it was supposed to do 
> >>>in them (at least there were no error messages during the install) but 
> >>>the only plugin the browser preferences shows is the default (libnull 
> >>>whatever).
> >>>   Does this plugin do anything with this browser? I would assume it 
> >>>works since they sell it for money. If so, can somebody tell me what I 
> >>>need to do to get it to work, or point me to documentation at least?
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> >>I think you can now load the winders version of the flash, shockwave, 
> >>quicktime, etc. browser plugins.  You should find docs with the unpacked 
> >>software or at the site you downloaded it from.
> >>http://www.codeweavers.com/site/support/docs/cxplugin/
> >>The docs for the other products is one level above.
> >>
> >>Brian
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> >>Somewhere there is a village missing an idiot.
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