Download and installation

The latest released version can be downloaded at the download page. Installation is done with the usual configure; make; su; <type root password> make install procedure.

CVS version

Report bugs and patches should be made for the current CVS version. To check outlibquicktime from CVS, type:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@libquicktime.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libquicktime login

(Press return when asked for password)

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@libquicktime.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libquicktime co -P libquicktime

Within the libquicktime directory, type

./autogen.sh

to create the configure script.

If you fixed a bug, create a patch with

cd libquicktime
cvs diff -u > patch.txt

and send the patch to the mailing list.

Requirements

Required libraries are zlib and gettext. On Linux, they are available for all distributions, on other systems it might be necessary to install them separately. The configure script will detect all supported libraries, and compile the corresponding codecs. If you don't want to compile them and you don't find them in your distribution, go to freshrpms if not otherwise noted. This is what you might need:

vorbis
libpng
libjpeg
FFmpeg You need a sufficiently new version from ffmpeg CVS and call configure with the --enable-shared option. If you are scared by things like CVS, you'll always find a supported version as end-user ready packages at aCarLab (India)
gtk-2.4 or later
lame

libdv
faad2 You need a sufficiently new CVS version to play all files.
faac
x264 Before installing x264, you must install nasm on some platforms and yasm on others.