MOVIES (including .MOV quicktime) WORKING in Picasa 2.6 + Ubuntu Feisty

[J]

Hi everyone, after reading a lot of discussions stating that managing
quicktime (.MOV) movies in Picasa was not possible under linux - I
thought I should post that I am doing exactly that just fine now.

I am running the 'windows' release of Picasa 2.6 under Wine on Ubuntu
Feisty (installed using the "install Linux Picasa 2.2 and replace with
windows Picasa 2.6" technique.
I then had AVI and MPEG support working in Picasa; but no MOV support,
and in Picasa the MOV option under File Types was greyed out.

I installed the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack (which includes Quicktime
Alternative) under Wine; and the MOV option under File Types was then
active. I turned it on, then Picasa Media Detector quickly detected
all my MOV files and added them.

I can also upload the MOV files to Picasa Web Albums just as with
Picasa under Windows.

Conclusion; it seems that the latest Wine (I'm using whatever the
latest public release available to Ubuntu apt-get is... I assume it's
nothing special) and Picasa 2.6 work quite well together.

The K-Lite Codec pack installed with only 1 error; unable to register
some DLL's (for divx, so I don't care).

I now almost have a 100% functional Picasa in linux.
Last remaining thing is importing directly from a memory card and/or
camera.

Big props to the Google Picasa team members working towards a better
world for us Linux folk :)

Cheers
James

[dank]

On Apr 16, 7:11 am, "J" <james.lauge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone, after reading a lot of discussions stating that managing
> quicktime (.MOV) movies in Picasa was not possible under linux - I
> thought I should post that I am doing exactly that just fine now.
>
> I am running the 'windows' release of Picasa 2.6 under Wine on Ubuntu
> Feisty (installed using the "install Linux Picasa 2.2 and replace with
> windows Picasa 2.6" technique.
> I then had AVI and MPEG support working in Picasa; but no MOV support,
> and in Picasa the MOV option under File Types was greyed out.
>
> I installed the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack (which includes Quicktime
> Alternative) under Wine

Interesting. I've been looking for a good source of codecs, hadn't
found one yet.
The one you refer to seems to originate from
http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/#klmcodec
(watch out, there are lots of other sites claiming to be its home;
I'm only guessing that this is the real one).

There might be copyright problems with this package; it appears
like it's a collection of freely downloadable tools, but it doesn't
quite smell like the author minded all his p's and q's. Nevertheless
it's very encouraging technically.

It would be interesting to try whittling down the codec package to
the smallest number of components, and then try to get official
permission from the authors of those components to redistribute them.

> Conclusion; it seems that the latest Wine (I'm using whatever the
> latest public release available to Ubuntu apt-get is... I assume it's
> nothing special) and Picasa 2.6 work quite well together.
>
> The K-Lite Codec pack installed with only 1 error; unable to register
> some DLL's (for divx, so I don't care).
>
> I now almost have a 100% functional Picasa in linux.
> Last remaining thing is importing directly from a memory card and/or
> camera.
>
> Big props to the Google Picasa team members working towards a better
> world for us Linux folk :)

And thanks for the good testing :-)
- Dan