# Quicktime and Linux
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quicktime-and-linux/133606
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 24, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quicktime-and-linux/133606 "2002-10-24T00:16:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quicktime-and-linux/133606/1 "2002-10-24T00:16:50Z")
How come Apple has not come out with a Quicktime plugin for Linux?
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### Author:  [@Alereon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alereon)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2002, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quicktime-and-linux/133606/2 "2002-10-24T00:45:22Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Bobort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobort)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2002, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quicktime-and-linux/133606/3 "2002-10-24T07:34:07Z")
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.