On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:33:10PM -0800, jdls wrote: > Greetings! > > I would like to know if I can somehow play quicktime files (.mov) > embedded in a browser and just plain .mov files in linux.
1) Complain to Apple about their disingenuous claims of believing in 'open source' and ask for source code or even a specification of the Sorenson Quicktime Codec. Explain to them that 'proprietary standards' are not standards at all (since they are trying to make QT the standard for streaming video). 2) Complain to Sorenson about it, though, as I recall, they've actually answered such complaints with, "Sorry, we'd love to help, but Apple has an exclusive license and it is up to them what they share." In other words, QuickTime is evil proprietary crap, and Apple is as evil as Microsoft, but they have a better PR department. (Microsoft has better marketing, though -- everyone knows they are evil, but they still buy their products.) -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;