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

Bob Klimek klimek at grc.nasa.gov
Fri Feb 20 14:41:11 EST 2004


Bob Ippolito wrote:

> 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).


Why do you say that there is "absolutely no chance of Quicktime being 
equally supported on Linux" ?  It already is. Check out: 
(http://heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3). The problem is that many of 
the codecs are not supported but the quicktime wrapper is open and 
documented.

Bob





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