[ILUG] playing quicktime movies in linux?

[Keith Clancy]

Ahh no no ... i have a dos 3.31 License .. It supports MSCDEX in this
release !! :P

No but i meant take out all the dll's and crap you don't need and just use
the quicktime executable instead of explorer.. i.e in system.ini make it
point to quicktime .. makes the player a little bit bigger though :) 

But it works ... kinda 


Keith.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wynne, Conor [mailto:Conor.Wynne at COMPAQ.COM]
Sent: 11 July 2001 10:58
To: 'bofh at tech-mad.org'; Keith Clancy; 'ilug at linux.ie'
Subject: RE: [ILUG] playing quicktime movies in linux?


Shouldn't be too hard, you only have to look at all the architectures
supported in every single kernel source out there. Alpha/Sparc etc etc
etc... So if they have qt for BSD - OS10, then it should be easy enough to
translate to i386/linux.

I agree with you Ruairi, vmware is a great solution - for programmers/QA who
need to test software without fecking up their own systems, but using it to
run win to play qt! No way man. I actually own a vmware licence for linux -
as opposed to renewing every month - but I only use it to receive exchange
mail on a French win98 on Mandrake 8. Can't figure this mutt stuff out - I
get distracted too easily. Maybe someone could stick it somewhere :)

If you are interested, I have tons of win95/98 licences that were never used
in various languages, still in shrink wrap to upgrade your dos 6.22 box :)

CW

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WMware isn't always a great solution.   The computer you want to run 
Quicktime on mightn't be powerful enough to run two OS' simultaneously.   Or

maybe like me, the individual might not own a copy of a Microsoft OS (Not 
quite true, I think I have a DOS 6.22 diskset somewhere).

What most people here would probably be looking for is a player that runs 
natively on *nix.   Which means that the way forward is to keep beating
Apple 
over the head until they give in.

Or if OS X has quicktime support try to bring it across, though not being a 
programmer, I don't know how feasible that would be.

Regards,

Ruairi



On Tuesday 10 July 2001 10:49, Keith Clancy wrote:
> 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?
>


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