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voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
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.
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Calum, most formats can be played under Linux.  I believe all of the formats you mention can be (Xanim plays a lot of formats, and you can install RealPlayer for Linux, get it from real.com just like you do for other OSs).  Apple, for whatever reasons only wishes to support a couple of platforms: Apple, Windows.  Why they would support Windows over Linux is beyond me?!?  I thought Microsoft was the enemy.

saquarrier:
I am not 100% sure on this but I think that you can play quicktime files that are not encripted their compression codec that I think they use for streaming.  Allso you probably don't know how to decompress a tar ball so that you can compile it.  To decompress a tar ball use tar -xvzf filename

billy_gates:

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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Well, I Downloaded Open Quicktime and only to my surprise your steps did not work,
I browsed to the directory I extracted everything to with the "Konsole" and then typed "./configure" it did "stuff" and finished without any errors that I noticed, then I typed "make" it said the bash command system could not find that file directory or command. so I tried "make install" and no errors but also did nothing.

Does anyone know of a free windows emulator? I have the windows disks to install windows, but nothing to emulate windows, In essence it would be a virtual pc for Linux that is free.

lu666s:

quote: 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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Never needed quicktime, so if you know better, just  fire away...  ;)  

 
quote:  then I typed "make" it said the bash command system could not find that file directory or command
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Well, then you should note what was that missing and either install it or post here so we can help.

Also, you would need to do it as root, as the make install is concerned.

As for emulators, you can probably use vmware, which is actually a virtual machine layer. Works prety well and you don't need to partition your system for double boot.

voidmain:
If you noticed in my first post I said that I have never had a need for QuickTime either, but was just trying to help the person who said that was important to him.

As far as the "make" command not being found by the other dude/dudette, sounds like they haven't installed all of the development packages (make, gcc, etc, etc).  They probably answered "no" to the question on the install if they wanted the development tools installed.

[ February 07, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

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