| Sean Finney on Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:20:21 +0200 |
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 12:12:20PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > Got anything handy that speaks Mac compression formats? > > Maybe macutil from ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dik/ would help? or for debian users, apt-get install macutils (of course) i half-heartedly tried macunpack on the file, with no luck though. > > Package xv has no installation candidate, says apt-get. So apt-get > > install xview-clients, but that's not it. Oh, well. It probably > > wouldn't have worked, anyway. ;-) > > Huh. It's its own package under NetBSD's pkgsrc. ::shrug:: yeah, i've noticed this for a while, and have been a little confused about it. I'm guessing it's because xv has a rather restrictive 'personal use only' shareware license, which doesn't get along at all with debian's free software guidelines, which say it must be free for any use, personal or commercial. why it isn't in 'non-free' (where there are other programs of similar restrictions), i have no idea... however, here are two alternative image viewers (and their debian packages): xview (xloadimage) xzgv (xzgv) > > Mind you, this has become a matter of pride more than necessity, since > > my brother says he can open it and convert it to a different format. I > > like to think I can do most everything besides quicktime on my linux > > box. the latest and greatest version of xine works for some quicktime formats (but not all, and perhaps to differing extents). i have a digital camera that records movies in .mov format (why that and not mpeg, who knows... probably space) and i was happy to discover that xine works with them. --sean Attachment:
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