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Re: Quicktime movies



>> I'd like to know if there is a video player available on debian PPC which
>> would be able to play .mov (Apple Quicktime) files.
> 
> if they are sorenson like most are then forget it.
> 
> apple and sorenson just play a little game of pointing fingers at each
> other. 
> 
> sorenson: we can't even make a proprietary binary of our codec for
> anything but apple because we have an anti-competitive contract with
> apple.
> 
> apple: we can't provide even a proprietary binary of the sorenson
> codec because we don't own it, sorenson does.
> 
> -- 
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

strange and possibly idiotic question...

No way to pull whatever they've used for the OS-X version of the quicktime
player, is there? Or does the BSD vs Linux issue come into play...

-- JM




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