Sven LUTHER wrote: > > 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.
Same wine trick avifile introduced, iirc, doesn't use wine (the program), but a part of libwine. > Could not a similar trick been done with the mac codecs ? Yes, if you write a MacOS compatibility layer for Linux/PPC... Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
