[ILUG] playing quicktime movies in linux?

[Keith Clancy]

far as i know Os X is BSD based .. 
And i thought they posted windows out to people for free ;P

I don't think apple would actually give a toss ... they want you to use
their machines not somebody elses.. Maybe if everyone wanted to "pay" for it
then apple might look into it .. but until then shouting "i want a fast
stable quicktime player for Linux/Bsd for free!" will be like taking a piss
against the wind. They have nothing to profit from it except listening to
people bitching about how buggy the would be prog is.

Keith.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ruairi Newman [mailto:bofh at tech-mad.org]
Sent: 10 July 2001 21:03
To: Keith Clancy; 'ilug at linux.ie'
Subject: Re: [ILUG] playing quicktime movies in linux?



WMware isn't always a great solution.   The computer you want to run 
Quicktime on mightn't be powerful enough to run two OS' simultaneously.   Or

maybe like me, the individual might not own a copy of a Microsoft OS (Not 
quite true, I think I have a DOS 6.22 diskset somewhere).

What most people here would probably be looking for is a player that runs 
natively on *nix.   Which means that the way forward is to keep beating
Apple 
over the head until they give in.

Or if OS X has quicktime support try to bring it across, though not being a 
programmer, I don't know how feasible that would be.

Regards,

Ruairi



On Tuesday 10 July 2001 10:49, Keith Clancy wrote:
> Why not use vmWARE or use that free version that runs windows 95 with
> quicktime
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of John
> P. Looney
> Sent: 10 July 2001 15:37
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] playing quicktime movies in linux?
>


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