On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 04:26:20PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 04:47:45PM -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > Damien GUIHAL wrote: > > > > > I'd like to know if there is a video player available on debian PPC which > > > would be able to play .mov (Apple Quicktime) files. > > > > Damien, > > > > > > One of my colleagues was one of the original Quicktime developers (previous > > position) and he told me there is a hack floating around the net which > > involves using the Windows Quicktime library on Linux and somehow hacking it > > to run on Linux (Quicktime loads the library dynamically, so it can load the > > Windows driver). > > its highly unlikely this would work anywhere except the i386 > archtecture. i haven't checked but i suspect this involves wine.
Not sure, since i never tested this, but xine (which is packaged) has, at least under i386, a place where to put windows codec, don't know if it uses wine though. Could not a similar trick been done with the mac codecs ? Friendly, Sven Luther
