On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 01:00:12AM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 10:53:44AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > > I have installed xanim, and xanim modules, but I still don't seem to be > > able to play QuickTime movies. This is on a stavble system. > > > > Is there something special I need to do to enbale this? Or can someone > > Yes. You need to wedgie Sorenson until they cry and give in and let > loose the specs so that a player can be made by one and all. the Q4 > spec is held up by them... 8( not just them, sorenson and apple are playing this obnoxious little game of finger pointing at each other, it goes something like this: sorenson: we can't release any specs because our product is proprietary, and we can't release a binary codec for any other platform because we have an exclusionary contract with apple. apple: we can't release a sorenson codec for any other platforms because we don't own the sorenson codec, sorenson does. ask them. in short screw them both and promote Open Free standards. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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