Quicktime In Linux

brianmed writes "Yes, it works. Codeweavers has just announced their crossover plug-in. It enables users to access popular Windows files and plug-ins in Linux. Right now it is geared towards Quicktime, Shockwave, and Word viewers. Quicktime trailers play just fine. I also have pine setup to launch the the MS Word viewer on command. It is a happy day." Alright, time to start testing. I've also been talking with Jeremy White of Codeweavers: he's got a request for help, as well as an interesting piece on business models -- the Crossover is not entirely GPL. See the above for more information.

Re:For every action, there is an equal and opposit

[jchristopher]

Apple needs Quicktime to run on Mac, because they want to sell their hardware to content developers.

Apple also needs for Quicktime to run on Windows, because that's what the content consumers use.

Apple does not care about Linux, because by comparison, very few of the content viewers use Linux.

Now, as much as you and I would love for there to be a Quicktime app/plugin for Linux, I don't see that support coming from Apple.

The only thing that will convince Apple to make Quicktime for Linux is a dramatic increase in the amount of desktop end-users running Linux. The best way you can make that happen is by increasing the usability and friendliness of Linux as a whole, by writing programs with clean GUIs and good documentation.

To put it in other terms, Apple does not care about a platform where you have to know to type "rpm -iv quicktime_plugin.i386.rpm" to install it. That needs to change first! 99% of the computing population can not, and will not understand the command line!

Re:QT Good. ASF Support = Worse.

[Anonymous Coward]

ASF is the suckiest suck that ever sucked.

Re:jobs killed quicktime for linux

[dgenr8]

I wrote native QT (using licensed portions of XAnim) and native QTVR support for OS/2 [slashdot.org] some years ago and have been on a jihad for 5 years to get Apple to wake up and port the QT client -- PLAYBACK ONLY -- to Linux. Just because it makes so damn much sense.

If your friend has any direct line to Jobs at all, I wish he could get one simple message through.

The enemy of your enemy is a BIG friend.

QT + Linux would deal a major blow to Windows Media Format.

When is Apple going to stop trying to out-microsoft Microsoft?

closed installation program

[vu13]

The two proprietary components of CrossOver are our installation utility, which is of no general value, and

If it's of no value the why not open it? I mean it seems rather daft to limit your costumer base to those who are willing to run closed code in super user mode. What does it do? It could install spyware or give my browser the yellow links for all I know.

I care a lot less about the program that runs in normal user mode.

this compounds problems of proprietary formats

[mj6798]

Proprietary formats are bad: they restrict fair use rights unreasonably, and they mean that data simply becomes inaccessible in a few years, when the companies that created those formats have moved on to the next thing or gone out of business. Giving companies that kind of control over content threatens the foundations of our academic, social, and political institutions.

Using the kinds of workarounds CodeWeavers is making available only perpetuates such formats. You should instead ask web sites and content providers to use open, documented formats. Even if the open formats are encumbered by patents (like MPEG), that is still a better deal than using something proprietary; patents eventually expire, but undocumented proprietary formats never become open, they become obsolete and forgotten.

Besides, don't fool yourself for a moment: Microsoft and Apple will only allow this sort of thing to go on if they see it as being either useless or in their advantage. Otherwise, they have plenty of legal and technical means for stopping it.