hi ya noah... donno if its legal or not etc... but there are linux-based quicktime players and servers and apple is playing the "open source" game with its darwin and Mac-10 OS etc...
http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/streaming/ http://heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3 ... c ya alvin http://www.Linux-Video.net On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:49:12PM -0400, Ed Falis wrote: > > Anyone aware of something that can be used on Linux when a radio station > > offers streams for Windows mediaplayer or for Quicktime? > > Nope. Can't be done. Quicktime is a patented codec, so that's out > (conceivably some company could create a binary only program for Linux > to play it, but it hasn't happened yet). Microsoft naturally hasn't > released the necessary programming bits for somebody to create a Windows > Media Player decoder for Linux. I am a bit surprised that nobody has > reverse engineered it, but maybe nobody has been inspired enough. > > noah > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html > >