From: David Neary (dneary at domain informix.com)
Date: Tue 04 Jul 2000 - 16:28:15 IST
Hi all,
Thought I'd forward this on, since there was a related post - it's the
reply I got a couple of months ago after asking the same question as
Kevin.
Seems like they're under an exclusivity contract with Apple to me. I
sent a mail to Apple too, but they never got back to me. Seems the only
way it'll get supported is if Apple let Sorenson share, and then
Sorenson choose to do so. Funny enough, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Cheers,
Dave Neary.
Scott Wheeler wrote:
>
> David,
>
> Thank you for your question about Sorenson Video on unsupported OS
> platforms.
>
> Sorenson Vision has chosen to team up with Apple and their QuickTime
> product. Because of this, Sorenson Video is only available on supported
> QuickTime OS platforms.
>
> QuickTime is available for Mac OS <http://www.apple.com/macos/>, Windows 95,
> Windows 98, and Windows NT 4. According to Apple, the next platform to be
> supported will be Mac OS X <http://www.apple.com/macosx/> (including Mac OS
> X Server), which is Mach/BSD-based.
>
> If you're interested in QuickTime for platforms other than Mac or Windows,
> please contact your platform vendor and let them know that you would like
> them to license QuickTime from Apple. Once QuickTime is available on a
> platform, Sorenson Video will be there as well.
>
> Scott Wheeler
> Customer Support Technician
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Neary [mailto:dneary at domain informix.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 2:39 AM
> To: support at domain s-vision.com; wish at domain hype.quicktime.apple.com
> Subject: Unix/Linux support for your video codec
>
> Hi,
>
> Do you have any plans to support/licence your codec on any unix/linux
> platforms? At the moment, I use xanim-2.80 to view any video, and
> unfortunately yours is one of the few codec unsupported by it.
> Apparrently, this is due to licencing issues. Are there any plans to
> overcome these issues?
>
> I would not normally ask, but due to the success of the Sorenson codec,
> more and more videos in that format are being made, especially film
> trailers, and there are many poeple in the Linux community to whom these
> trailers would be of great interest.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Dave Neary.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Dave Neary,
> Software engineer, Informix Dublin.
> Ireland.
> ----------------------------------------------------
-- Dave Neary, Software engineer, Informix Dublin. Ireland. Phone: +353-1-409-1357
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