Free quicktime 4 software for linux

Libquicktime is a library for reading and writing quicktime files.
Note: libquicktime is in no way related to the original quicktime software, which can be found here. You should not expect all quicktime files created by original software to be playable by libquicktime or vice versa. You might, however, be lucky in some cases.
Furthermore, its is no longer a development goal to support as many codecs as possible. Instead we want to keep things simple and provide a library, which can create reasonable compatible Quicktime and AVI files either uncompressed (for high-end or production applications) or with decent compression codecs for end user applications.
On the decoder side, the goal is that libquicktime should at least be able to decode its own files. If other decoders can be added with a reasonable amount of labour, they will be supported as well. If you are looking for a general purpose library, which supports other formats than Quicktime/AVI and many more codecs, try gmerlin_avdecoder or ffmpeg.
Main features:
- Sourcetree upgraded with autoconf/automake/libtool and all the other stuff, people like in "standard" linux libraries.
- All 3rd party libraries (jpeg, OggVorbis) were removed to reduce download size, compilation time and code duplication on users harddisks. Instead, the sytemwide installed libaries are autodetected by the configure script.
- All codecs have been moved into dynamically loadable modules. This makes it possible to distribute closed source codecs (or codecs with an incompatible license) as separate packages.
- Unlike other quicktime libraries, we are source compatible with quicktime4linux.
- The codecs themselves are also source compatible with quicktime4linux, so porting codecs between quicktime4linux and libquicktime requires only little brain load.
- Special API extensions allow access to the codec registry. Applications can get important information about the codecs, their settable parameters etc. at runtime.
- Libquicktime 0.9.4 introduced support for handling QTVR files. QTVR is a technology to store panoramas and interactive "3D pictures" (Object Movies) in Quicktime files. For more information check out this document.
- The current implementation allows developers to write applications that display and/or create QTVR V1.0 object movies and panoramas.
Although its usable there are a few limitations:
- the newer versions of the QTVR format arent supported (yet)
- no multinode support
- no abstraction of the movie structure. That means the application writer has to take care of which frame to decode when (object movies) and how to piece them together (panoramas) (see http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1036.html and http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1035.html for information about that)
- no documentation
Enhancements:
- Support for text tracks. These can be either Subtitles or Chapters.
- Lots of fixes
- gettext support, German translation.

Video::OpenQuicktime is an interface to the OpenQuicktime library.

SYNOPSIS

use Video::OpenQuicktime;

my $qt = Video::OpenQuicktime->new(file=>"sample.mov");
$qt->get_video_height;
$qt->get_audio_compression;
$qt->get_audio_samplerate;

From the OpenQuicktime site, http://www.openquicktime.org:

"OpenQuicktime aims to be a portable library for handling Apples QuickTime(TM) popular media files on Unix-like environments. It is aim is to provide encoding, authoring and editing support as well as video playback."

OpenQuicktime is currently able to decode as well as encode video and audio streams. The Video::OpenQuicktime library currently only supports extracting diagnostic information from Quicktime files, such as video dimensions, codecs used, and play length.

I would like to add support for video and audio demux at some point, but dont have the time to develop it right now. Given sufficient user interest or free time, Ill do it. Patches are also welcome in case anyone else wants to help me out, see the contact information below.

Image::ExifTool::QuickTime is a Perl module to read QuickTime and MP4 meta information.

SYNOPSIS

This module is used by Image::ExifTool

This module contains routines required by Image::ExifTool to extract information from QuickTime and MP4 video files.

aKtion! is a video player based on xanim. It (xanim) supports many different file formats:
AVI animations.
Quicktime Animations.
FLI animations.
FLC animations.
IFF animations.
GIF87a and GIF89a files.
GIF89a animation extension support.
DL animations. Formats 1, 2 and most of 3.
Amiga MovieSetter animations(For those Eric Schwartz fans).
Utah Raster Toolkit RLE images and anims.
SGI Movie Format Files.
During a video playback, you can press the c key to capture the current frame being played. You dont need to pause the video, just press the c key. The frames will be saved in the "Output directory" (see the configuration dialog in the "Capture" tab), with the specified format. They will have the name of the current file followed by a number which indicates the capture order (e.g. "myVideo1.bmp myVideo2.bmp ...").
These are the install instructions:
1. Uncompress the aktion.tgz file in the usual way (try Ark ;-)
2. Go into the /aktion-0.4.1 directory.
3. Type "./configure"
4. Then "make"
5. And finally (as root) "make install"
Enhancements:
- fixed a mimetype bug in aktion.kdelnk
- updated portugese translation
- fixed a bug in trasnlations

AKFQuiz project lets you easily make your own quiz games, learning exercises or psychotests. These can be used with grquiz in a graphical environment, with diaquiz in a GUI environment or with crtquiz on the text-console. There is also a line oriented variant, linequiz, which can be used as a backend.

A CGI-variant, akfquiz.cgi can be installed on a Web server to offer exercises via Internet or a local network.

Or you can use mkquiz, which generates an HTML file for to use with JavaScript. Those can then be published using any deliberate web-space provider.

FIDOGATE is a Fido-Internet gateway and a Fido tosser.
Main features:
- Fido Internet Gateway
- Fido Zone Gateway (NetMail zone gate)
- Fido Tosser (mail processor)
- Fido Ticker (file processor)
- Fido Areafix and Filefix