[newbie] quicktime plugin for linux ?
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. Thanks in advance for the help. Kenn _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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
Re: [newbie] quicktime plugin for linux ?
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
