[plug] OS X packages

Shayne shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au
Sun Jan 12 18:40:23 WST 2003


Infact, unless Apple have open sourced quicktime, which I *highly* doubt, 
then the odds are zero. OSX doesn't use X for most things, has a completely
different linking architecture, different API's and much more. Plus yeah the
PPC compile target is kinda fundamental to the issue. Sure OSX is a unix of
sorts, but only of sorts and linux is a unix only of sorts.

That's not to say of course that oneday someone makes a OSX thunking layer
for the PPC linux platform (Ie a Wine for the mac) but not right now.

> (i.e. most movie trailers etc..). And no, it's unlikely you can use the
> binary because it's for a different OS with different UI and libraries,
> and it's compiled for PowerPC, not x86.
>
>     http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/



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