Utilities
This page describes some utilities, which are shipped with
libquicktime. The sources can be viewed in CVS.
- lqtplay: (lqtplay.c) Simple player for quicktime/avi/mp4
files with OSS/Alsa audio and X11 video. Type man lqtplay for
usage instructions or study the file utils/lqtplay.c
to learn about the decoding API.
- lqt_transcode: (lqt_transcode.c)
Really simple Quicktime/AVI transcoder. Type lqt_transcode
without options for usage instructions.
- qtdump: (dump.c) Tiny wrapper around quicktime_dump(file)
function; displays the parsed contents of the provided file.
- qtinfo: (qtinfo.c) Prints various pieces of metadata
parsed by the libquicktime library for the provided file.
- qtrechunk: (rechunk.c) Concatenate input frames
into a Quicktime movie. You can make valid quicktime movies from
png images (compressor "png ") and jpegs (compressor "jpeg").
- qtstreamize: (qtstreamize.c) Wrapper around
quicktime_make_streamable(infile, outfile) function; This function
makes a file streamable by placing the moov header at the beginning of
the file. Don't use this on files, which were not be created by
libquicktime of the same or an older version.
There are also a number of unmaintained, outdated, or otherwise
obsolete utils in the same directory:
- qtyuv4toyuv: (yuv4toyuv.c) Writes a YUV4 encoded movie
as a planar YUV 4:2:0 file. This might soon become removed/replaced
- qtdechunk: (dechunk.c) Movies containing rgb frames are
written as ppm images.