In article , Jack
wrote:

f.blair wrote:
If you had "Apple's" quicktime.

Which is a freely available cross-platform solution found he

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

"Cross-platform" in that it works on Mac and Windows. There isn't a
Linux version, which I think is a serious problem.

Still, mplayer and xine and totem will play just about anything :-)

-- Bruce
Mac user/programmer