[ILUG] Re Quicktime thread.

John P. Looney john at antefacto.com
Wed Jul 11 10:52:00 IST 2001


On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:34:30PM -0700, Rick Moen mentioned:
> At LinuxWorld NYC, last year, TransGaming Technologies CEO Gavriel State        
> showed me Apple's QuickTime 5 beta for Win32[1] running on Linux (Debian 2.2    
> potato) using TransGaming's DirectX v. 7 extensions to WINE -- playing the      
> Sorenson-encoded movie preview of The Phantom Menace, among other things.       
> Pretty cool stuff -- and pretty much the only possible method, until the        
> patent expires or exclusive-licensee Apple Computer starts allowing             
> third-party implementations (or Hell freezes over -- whichever comes first).    

 Sweeeeet. I got Kohan Immortal sovereigns working under Wine a while
back. I didn't even think to get Quicktime running. I wonder could I run
the quicktime installer under Wine too....have you bothered to try get it
working ?

Kate

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 When I say 'free', I mean 'free': free from bond, of chain or command: 
to go where you will, even to Mordor, Saruman, if you desire. " 
    -- Gandalf, paraphrasing the choice between Free and Non-free software




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