In order to run Movieplayer animations from your browser...

Some of the animations in this web site make use of SGI's movieplayer for playback. These movies are platform-specific and assume that you are running on a Silicon Graphics workstation. If you are on an SGI and having difficulty viewing these animations, you may need to make some modifications to files in the home directory of your personal account.

1. Add the following lines to your .mailcap file:

#
# Movieplayer understands SGI, QuickTime, MPEG Video, and MPEG Systems
#
video/x-sgi-movie; movieplayer -f %s; compose=moviemaker %s; \
description="SGI Movie"; \
x11-bitmap="/usr/lib/Zmail/bitmaps/movie.xbm"
video/mpeg; movieplayer -f %s; compose=moviemaker %s; \
description="MPEG Movie"; \
x11-bitmap="/usr/lib/Zmail/bitmaps/movie.xbm"
video/x-mpeg; movieplayer -f %s; compose=moviemaker %s; \
description="MPEG Movie"; \
x11-bitmap="/usr/lib/Zmail/bitmaps/movie.xbm"
video/x-mpeg-system; movieplayer -f %s; compose=moviemaker %s; \
description="MPEG Movie"; \
x11-bitmap="/usr/lib/Zmail/bitmaps/movie.xbm"
video/quicktime; movieplayer -f %s; compose=moviemaker %s; \
description="QuickTime Movie"; \
x11-bitmap="/usr/lib/Zmail/bitmaps/movie.xbm"

2. On your Athena account, add the following lines to your .environment file:

setenv XFILESEARCHPATH /usr/lib/X11/%T/%N

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