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Quicktime Under Linux With MPlayer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wouldn't-it-be-nice dept.

Sark writes: "The latest version of the controversial MPlayer program for Linux supports Quicktime .mov files with the latest codecs. Apart from the closed source program Crossover, this is the first open source program that seems to work. Check out the Mplayer homepage for more info." According to formats page, Sorenson Quicktime is still not gonna happen any time soon.

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  1. Re:Don't Bitch at MPlayer; Blame Apple! by gabebear · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Apple has released the specs for almost every aspect of the Quicktime (.mov) standard. They rarely write their own codecs though.

    The Sorenson codec is owned by Sorenson and Apple pays for it. If you want to get a legal player for a non-Win/Mac platform someone will either have to
    1. reverse engineer the codec(legally questionable and hard)
    2. write a wrapper that uses another OSs Code (crossover does this)
    3. legally licence the code and release a player (anyone?)
    4. actually get sorsen to let people have their source(or detailed specs) somehow.

    the best thing to do is just start using a codec that already lets people have their source and is on par with the best VP3