Re: quicktime4 player for linux?
aphro wrote:
> one thing i would like to understand is what apple is doing by restricting
> who uses their codec. i mean..how does it hurt them if other people use
> it for decoding purposes? i can only imagine it helping the population
In fairness to Apple, it isn't their codec to give away. They license
the sorenson codec from Sorenson Vision (http://www.s-vision.com) who
are the ones not giving it away. It might be possible to talk the
s-vision folks into releasing a playback only version of the codec.
> from being upgraded to G4 via bios "updates"..the list goes on.) intel
> has (had?) a nifty tool that converted AVI -> QT and back(free) but it
> doesnt work with most of the new (past 2-3 years) codecs from QT.
Again, Apple doesn't invent most of the codecs in QT, they license them
from other people.
jpb
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