Write Quicktime applications on Linux RIGHT NOW.

Introducing a library for reading and writing Quicktime files on UNIX systems. Version 1.2 introduces DV decoding support and integrated firewire capture. Dual and quad processor systems can double their framerates by using our parallel MJPA 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 many compression formats not found in previous versions of 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.

Why on earth would you ever use Quicktime? Traditionally, AVI is the preferred format for UNIX because writing an AVI parser is simple enough to teach you computer science. Quicktime offers little teaching value because of it's complexity. The Quicktime standard however, is well documented, resulting in little fragmentation. Also the Quicktime standard supported files longer than 4 GB since 1998 even if you can't afford 64 bit systems to test it on.