apple is pissing me off

[choasforages]

as cool as the new macs are, this one has been in my mind for a while, here goes. were is x86-linux quicktime support, o and crossover plugin dosint count (it does not run fast enough), why can't apple relasse a linux version of quicktime for the rest of use with no money for a dual g4 (i wish i had one) and who hate microsoft. come on, a lot of comercial products have been ported to linux but no quicktime support (well non that i know of for the sorseren format), i can't even pay for *native* quicktime support

[choasforages]

one more quicktime ?, is there any place i can write to apple requesting a native version of quicktime for x86-linuxor mabye we could all write? and notice that i said x86-linux, it is the most common variant of linux, so apple couldn't use the excuse that linux is supported on a bazillion platforms and is a little (not toomuch though different it more about the differences in hardware)

[voidmain]

Who needs QT when we have "mplayer" that can play almost ANY video format?

http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/homepage/

I had a little bit of a time getting it installed. I don't know why it isn't included in RedHat but it isn't as of yet. But once installed it can play just about everything. It actually can use the Windows DLL codecs. I do have a problem with the latest Sorenson 3 codecs in MOV files though, although I believe the new mplayer can handle them (as long as you have the codecs).  I'll work on that more tomorrow. It even plays the new M$ media formats..

[choasforages]

i know that mplayer can play almost any format (gnutella + divx + mplayer = dmca can dildo rape itself) but  i was talking about the plugin, maybe thats what i will write to the people behind mplayer, make mplayer plugin capable, in a different way then say just telling mozilla the different mime types and what to do with them, like an intagrated plugin, kinda like how quicktime is on windoze and mac

[voidmain]

Ahhh, yes that would be cool, one plugin that can play everything and configure your browser for you on install... If they make it a Netscape plugin, Mozilla and Konqueror will pick it up and run with it. They have a mailing list, why don't you post the suggestion?

P.S. I would rather have the MPlayer folks write the plugin rather than Apple. It would be GPL and I could hack it that way. I'm fairly certain Apple would not put out an open source version of QT.  But who knows, they went with Darwin so anything is possible...

[ June 11, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[choasforages]

yeah, now that i think about it, writing to the guys at mplayer might be a better idea, but i don't think that redhat could distrubute a copy of mplayer(IMHO   DeCSS is perfectly legal). but it would the process of convincing *that* group to make it a plugin, or forking it into a plugin (i am no godly programer so there goes the idea of me writeing my self)

[voidmain]

What's the issue? MPlayer is now completely GPL (not sure if all of the codecs are but they would not have to be included, and downloaded later).  Also, I believe MPlayer might also have plugin support.  I saw where there was an option useful for "plugger" which is what I use for Konq.  Haven't dug into it completely yet.