Apple licenses those codecs from third parties, or uses open standards. The movies are in the Sorenson codec, which Apple paid a pretty penny to license. The only codec I can think of that is exclusively Apple's is the animation codec, which is rarely used.
It isn't Apple stopping poeple from writing quicktime players (the format is an open standard, and part of the basis for mpeg-4), it's codec licensing fees by the third parties. That being said, you have to admire the recursive nature of the crossover quicktime hack. When Apple was designing the first windows port, they discovered that it would be easier to port the Mac API's that quicktime depends on to windows than it would be to run quicktime on top of windows itself. So what you have in windows quicktime is a very prevasive implementation of MacOS emulated atop the win32 api, with quicktime grafted on top of it. Then the crossover people realize it's easier to emulate the windows quicktime plugin in linux than it is to implement a full featured quicktime player natively, and pay the necessary licensing fees. So what you have is quicktime on top of a subset of MacOS emulated in windows emulated in Linux. Then the balloon pops, the rabbit gets sacred, runs in the treadmill, which winds the string on a spool, connected to the pulleys which open the door. tack On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Erik Curiel wrote: > > plug-in for netscape and mozilla, and it supports *all* qt codecs, even > apple's proprietary ones which xanim couldn't play (like the ones they > have on their website of all the new movie trailers). > > E > > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, John Hunter wrote: > > > >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Curiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Erik> There's now quicktime for linux too: > > > > Erik> http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/ > > > > Erik> Pretty damn cool. As long as you don't minf little pop-ups > > Erik> every once in a while reminding you to buy the damn thing, > > Erik> the demo is free. > > > > xanim has played *.mov files for years. Does this do something new? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bits mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits > > > > -- ------------------------------------------ "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos" - Homer J. Simpson _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
