[plug] Quicktime for Linux

Phil Steege psteege at tpg.com.au
Tue Nov 21 16:40:31 WST 2000


On Tuesday 21 November 2000 13:45, Matt Kemner wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> >  xanim will view quicktime videos, as will LAMP. Only problem is many of
> > the movies on the Internet are encoded with Sorenson encoding which I
> > believe is a proprietary format, so you can only view certain formats
> > that are variations of quicktime.
>
> There are additional modules available for xanim for download, under a
> very restrictive license, which add support for things like Sorenson
> encoding. Still doesn't seem to work with all .avi/.mov/.qt files though
>
> See http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/home.html
>
>  - Matt

Thanks to all for the inputs.  It turned out my version of Netscape 4.75, 
handled the Quicktime files I needed to see.
I had been using Opera for Linux.  I guess I will go back to Netscape.
-- 

Phil Steege
psteege at tpg.com.au



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