[Image-SIG] Quicktime port to Windows, join the project!

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 20, 2004, at 8:43 AM, Dinu Gherman wrote:

> www.stani.be on 2003-09-18:
>
>> We are forming a team to port the Quicktime API to
>> Windows.  People involved till now are: Jack Jansen
>> (who did the qt port on Mac Os X, probably more as
>> advisor), Bruce Williams (C++) and me (Python).  As we
>> can't know how much work it'll be, it would be nice if
>> some more people join. Any help is welcome (C++,
>> Python, website, documenting,...) The quicktime api is
>> quite low level, so I think we might need some more
>> Python programmers to make also a more high-level
>> library.  [...]
>
> would anybody involved mind to post an update of these activities,
> if there were any? I'd be also interested in the likelihood of ever
> seeing Quicktime being equally supported on Linux...

There is absolutely no chance of Quicktime being equally supported on 
Linux (well *maybe* on x86 by using the win32 quicktime dll, like some 
of the movie players can do to get proprietary codec support, but the 
chances of that happening are very slim).

-bob