%general-entities; ]> libquicktime-&libquicktime-version; libquicktime Introduction to libquicktime The libquicktime package contains the libquicktime library, various plugins and codecs, along with graphical and command line utilities used for encoding and decoding QuickTime files. This is useful for reading and writing files in the QuickTime format. The goal of the project is to enhance, while providing compatibility with the Quicktime 4 Linux library. &lfs121_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &libquicktime-md5sum; Download size: &libquicktime-size; Estimated disk space required: &libquicktime-buildsize; Estimated build time: &libquicktime-time; libquicktime Dependencies Optional , , , , , , , , , , , , and Schroedinger Installation of libquicktime Install libquicktime by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --enable-gpl \ --without-doxygen \ --without-ffmpeg \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libquicktime-&libquicktime-version; make This package does not come with a test suite. Now, as the root user: make install && install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/libquicktime-&libquicktime-version; && install -v -m644 README doc/{*.txt,*.html,mainpage.incl} \ /usr/share/doc/libquicktime-&libquicktime-version; Command Explanations --enable-gpl: Changes the licence to GPL. This enables some extra plugins, such as FAAC, FAAD2, and x264. --without-doxygen: This is necessary if you do not have Doxygen, omit this if it is installed and you wish the API documentation installed. --without-ffmpeg: This switch disables ffmpeg support because it is incompatible with ffmpeg-5. : Build with libdv support. Not enabled by default. Contents Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories libquicktime_config, lqtplay, lqtremux, lqt_transcode, qt2text, qtdechunk, qtdump, qtinfo, qtrechunk, qtstreamize, and qtyuv4toyuv libquicktime.so and several plugin codec libraries /usr/include/lqt, /usr/lib/libquicktime, and /usr/share/doc/libquicktime-&libquicktime-version; Short Descriptions libquicktime_config is a graphical front end to examine and configure the available libquicktime audio and video codecs libquicktime_config lqtplay is a simple QuickTime movie player for X Window System lqtplay lqt_transcode is a command-line program used to encode video and/or audio files from one format to another lqt_transcode qt2text is used to dump all text strings from a quicktime file qt2text qtdechunk can take movies containing rgb frames and write them out as ppm images qtdechunk qtdump displays the parsed contents of the provided file qtdump qtinfo prints various pieces of metadata parsed by the libquicktime library for the provided file qtinfo qtrechunk concatenates input frames into a QuickTime movie qtrechunk qtstreamize is used to make a file streamable by placing the moov header at the beginning of the file qtstreamize qtyuv4toyuv is used to write a YUV4 encoded movie as a planar YUV 4:2:0 file qtyuv4toyuv libquicktime.so is a library for reading and writing QuickTime files. It provides convenient access to QuickTime files with a variety of supported codecs. The library contains new functions integrated with all the original QuickTime 4 Linux library functions used to encode and decode QuickTime files libquicktime.so