Re: Quicktime movies

[Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>]

Sven LUTHER wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 04:26:20PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 04:47:45PM -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote:
> > > Damien GUIHAL wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Damien,
> > >
> > >
> > > One of my colleagues was one of the original Quicktime developers (previous
> > > position) and he told me there is a hack floating around the net which
> > > involves using the Windows Quicktime library on Linux and somehow hacking it
> > > to run on Linux (Quicktime loads the library dynamically, so it can load the
> > > Windows driver).
> >
> > its highly unlikely this would work anywhere except the i386
> > archtecture.  i haven't checked but i suspect this involves wine.
> 
> Not sure, since i never tested this, but xine (which is packaged) has, at
> least under i386, a place where to put windows codec, don't know if it uses
> wine though.

Same wine trick avifile introduced, iirc, doesn't use wine (the
program), but a part of libwine.

> Could not a similar trick been done with the mac codecs ?

Yes, if you write a MacOS compatibility layer for Linux/PPC...

Cheers

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