Joan of Arc trailer: The first movie to be captured with the dualized MJPA codec.
You can code Quicktime applications on Linux RIGHT NOW using this library.
Introducing a library for reading and writing Quicktime files on UNIX systems. This is a real live library for reading and creating Quicktime movies. Version 1.1.5 introduced dualized MJPA support. Dual and quad processor systems can double their framerates by using this codec. Alternatively the MJPA codec can be set to utilize only 1 processor.
Be aware of one thing: Quicktime for Linux won't read any of the movies you download from the internet. Quicktime is a wrapper for many different kinds of compression formats. What you know as "Quicktime 4" is really a distribution of libraries which contain certain compression formats not found in previous versions Quicktime. Regardless of the version number, each Quicktime distribution is able to read and write a basic set of compression formats that you can manipulate on Linux or any system not officially supported by Apple.
Only a few of these compression formats are built in Quicktime for Linux because 99% of Linux developers can't use any commercial code in their software. Since 1998 Apple has licensed all the internet video formats for their own use.
What you can do is create Quicktime movies.
Supported codecs
Supported video is MJPA, JPEG Photo, PNG, RGB, YUV 4:2:2, and YUV 4:2:0 compression.Supported audio is IMA4, ulaw, and any linear PCM format.
Hit the link below to download the latest tree.
1.1.9 JPEG restructuring.
1.1.8 Introducing preload, allowing movies to play from slow CD-ROM drives.
1.1.7 RGBA byte order fixed.
1.1.5 Introducing dualized MJPA support for software compression.
1.1.3 fixed the rounding error in fractional frame rates and switched to the 30000/1001 time base for 29.97fps.
