Muryn Bartlomiej wrote:
> I think it is too late... the *.mov files can now be played by soft
> "xmovie".
> http://heroine.linuxbox.com/xmovie.html
> Bartek
There's the misunderstanding. Quicktime 4 uses two codecs (Sorenson, and
I've forgotten the name of the other one) for which Apple has signed
exclusive licensing agreements to use in Quicktime. Thus, Apple's
official Quicktime is the only program where you can play movies using
those codecs. Unfortunately, Sorenson has become rather popular on the
'net, so Linux users are locked out of a lot of movie trailers and other
things that have shown up on the net in the past 6 months or so (the
Star Wars trailer, for example).
I truly hope that Apple either modifies these licensing agreements so
that Linux developers can use them or ports Quicktime to Linux. The
former would be a lot less costly for them, since Quicktime support for
Linux is already done (Xanim and Xmovie). All those authors need are the
codecs. Or, maybe one of those authors wouldn't mind donating or selling
their code to Apple so that Apple doesn't have to start from scratch.
Andrew Post
