Quicktime and Linux

[raisinbread]

How come Apple has not come out with a Quicktime plugin for Linux?

[Alereon]

Because it's not cost effective. Apple's market is NOT tech-savvy geeks, it's mac users and people who interact with them. Linux users are such a small segment of the population as to make it not worth developing a plugin for.

Since Quicktime 6 Video is ISO MPEG4 compliant, it can be viewed on Linux and nearly every other operating system. Apple's tools are not required.

[Bobort]

It's the Sorenson codec used by some versions of Quicktime that's the problem. IIRC, Apple says Sorenson won't give them a license to make a linux version and Sorenson says the same thing about Apple. This has been going on for years.

Most Quicktime movies I've run into lately (not a very large sample...) work fine with Xine 0.9.13. YMMV.