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Quicktime for Linux
billy_gates:
When I have the ability to play the quicktime movies from the apple website on Linux, SuSE is my new OS. on my SuSE disk that I have I can install a program called "Quicktime4Linux" In the description it says that it is a library for quicktime files. On the site it says that it plays quicktime files. Unfortunately, I am so noob at linux I don't know where it is or how to run it. If someone could tell me how to use "Quicktime4Linux" I would take windows off of my PC forever.
P.S. If you know of an easier or better quicktime player please tell me where to get it and how to use it.
P.S.S. I am way too noob to compile or whatever u linux geeks call it, basically all I can do in Linux (program installing wise) is use RPM's and the SuSE add/remove programs feature.
P.S.S.S. Sorry for my incompitance, hopefully I will become better at this open source stuff. Right now, to me, Open source means, "Hard to Use." Hopefully later it will mean "Yes, its free and I can change it however I want"
voidmain:
Rather than starting another thread, you might want to go look at the following thread on /. which is almost a year old now but I don't believe the status has changed a lot. We can only hope now that Apple has a bunch of *NIX developers in house that they will put out a port really soon. It's funny though, I can't think of ever running into a case where I wished I had QuickTime installed. I have no trouble with MPEG and RealVideo, guess I must visit the wrong sites...
http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/03/28/1835255.shtml
lu666s:
http://openquicktime.sourceforge.net/
All files in tarball format. No RPM's as far as I could find, but... what is so difficult about compiling? Three things involved:
./configure
make
make install
That's all to it, really, nothing to it.
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
It's funny though, I can't think of ever running into a case where I wished I had QuickTime installed. I have no trouble with MPEG and RealVideo, guess I must visit the wrong sites...
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It's those nasty little .qt and .mov files you see. Once i am eventually into Linux, i will have to go through the headache of finding not only players but converters for all those proprietary formats out there. (WMV, WMA, AVI in its myriad forms, RAM, RM, RA, FLM and many others) This was hard in Windows, but will be just as hard i'm sure in Linux. That's what i was saying in one of the Lindows fora somewhere, about incompatibility of proprietary formats & c.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by lu666s:
http://openquicktime.sourceforge.net/
All files in tarball format. No RPM's as far as I could find, but... what is so difficult about compiling? Three things involved:
./configure
make
make install
That's all to it, really, nothing to it.
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But what you quote are mostly libraries (yes there is a player, but there are already better players out there). The problem is the proprietary Codecs. Apple doesn't want to let them be used. It's Apple's bad if you ask me.
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