Re: [xine-user] quicktime, leader of the open-source community

[xine-user <xin...@ba...>]

> "QuickTime is favoured by professionals and consumers alike for its
> multi-platform, open-source approach. "
> 
> http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5588692%5E15397%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

QuickTime is a "wrapper" format in some ways.

There are linux programs which understand the QuickTime format, it's
just that video data stored inside files using the QuickTime format is
frequently encoded using proprietary CODECs such as SVQ1 and SVQ3 by
Sorenson. The former has apparently been reverse engineered. The latter
is still being worked upon.

This allows the QuickTime standard to be open or at least known, but
still have files encoded in such a way that isn't.