Re: Linux player for Sorenson video
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I downloaded a QuickTime (tm) .mov-ie from Apple's movie trailers sites.
> Is there any way to play them under GNU/Linux?
Not directly.
> I thought the non-free xanim could do it.
Nope it won't. Apparently Sorenson won't allow Apple to release the specs
(and won't release the specs themselves) for a non Windows/MacOS decoder
to be written.
A number of alternatives are possible (VMware, Win4Lin, Wine) but I've not
looked into any of them.
> But it seems I've just put a good two-hour+ download to waste.
Unfortunately you did :(
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