[ILUG] playing quicktime movies in linux?

[Keith Clancy]

Why not use vmWARE or use that free version that runs windows 95 with
quicktime

-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of John
P. Looney
Sent: 10 July 2001 15:37
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] playing quicktime movies in linux?


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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