okay, you sold me ... i just ordered it, and it's downloading on the other box right now ...
thanks for the good advice ... kennM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] quicktime plugin for linux ? | On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:22:48 -0600, "Kenn Yahoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Greetings. | > | > Does anyone have a recommendation for a quicktime plugin for linux browsers? | > A search on Google turned up Crossover from Codeweavers ... does anyone have | > any feedback about this product? I was hoping for free, but I'll spend the | > $20 if it's a worthwhile program and nothing else is available. | | The problem with Quicktime is that most videos nowadays are encoded in the | Sorenson format. This format is patented and it would be difficult to legally | create a decoder for it. | | Codeweavers' Crossover is an excellent product. It uses WINE to allow Quicktime, | Shockwave, and the MS viewers for Word, Excel and Powerpoint to work in x86 | GNU/Linux. While the apps don't work quite as well as they do in Windows, they | are still perfectly usable. Codeweavers is a good company, and they have devoted | a lot of resources to WINE development. Your US$20 contributes to this | development, so in effect you are supporting open source. | | -- | Sridhar Dhanapalan | | "Software evolves. It isn't designed. The only question is how strictly you | _control_ the evolution, and how open you are to external sources of mutations." | -- Linus Torvalds | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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