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[ILUG] playing quicktime movies in linux?

[ILUG] playing quicktime movies in linux?

John P. Looney john at antefacto.com
Tue Jul 10 15:36:45 IST 2001


On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:22:15PM +0100, Alan mentioned:
> the above from the Xanim docs does not really tell what kind of support
> it actually has for Quicktime, all vidoe files have video and audio
> tracks! so i expect he means that without the soreson codec it can do
> nothing, probably just really old quicktime files.     
> 
> I thought since OS X has arrived there might be slightly better *nix
> support by now.  

 There is nothing on Linux that'll play quicktime/sorenson. Even things
like xine and aviplay that use Windows DLL's for the decoding can't work
it out.

 Mail apple support, and ask them. I fire off a mail every year or so,
when I'm annoyed, in the hope it does something. Nothing yet though.

Kate

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