Quicktime for Linux???

[Xpander]

Im working with a dual boot so i could hop over to windows and watch RvB easily, but i was wondering if there's a quicktime port to linux.

[Droppyale]

http://heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3

[Xpander]

Be aware of one thing: Quicktime for Linux won't read any of the movies you download from the internet. Quicktime is a wrapper for many different kinds of compression formats. What you knew as "Quicktime 4", "Quicktime 5", "Quicktime 6", are really different distributions of compression formats. The codecs we support are mainly uncompressed.

have you used Quicktime 4 Linux? cause i think it's more a creator/writer than a reader. i don't think i can use it to read already compressed quicktime files such as what i download.

[Droppyale]

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ this one also playes some common quicktime formats.

[Droppyale]

http://freshmeat.net/projects/crossover/

do a search here www.freashmeat.net

[Xpander]

thanks but i think it's a pay service but maybe ill try out the trail version for fun.

ill do some freshmeat searching though and figure something out. thanks again.

[Redwolf]

Mplayer plays quicktimes perfectly, and is certainly not a pay service (crossover is though). I highly reccomend it. Also, VLC will do quicktime, but I think you have to dl those codecs seprately.

www.videolan.org

[Xpander]

HOW COULD I FORGET ABOUT MPLAYER!!!! *smacks himself*

[Epyon9283]

Xine will also play quicktime vids if you have the right codecs.

[flashingcurser]

Just a side note: there is a mozilla plugin for mplayer that may make the web stuff work just fine too. I havent used it for awile, but the last time I used it, it worked well. Here is a link.