Author: Adam Williams broadcast@earthling.net
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Quicktime for Linux hides the structure of a Quicktime movie and gives the programmer a set of audio and video streams with some compression ability. The audio tracks are sequential streams of PCM audio data and video tracks are a sequential streams of frames.
Before you drop your classes and write up your dream program on this be aware of some limitations. This library doesn't give you the official Quicktime API even remotely. It uses it's own threadable, scalable ANSI C API. This library doesn't include any commercial codecs or compressed header support. This library only reads uncompressed headers.
What you can do is create and read any Quicktime movie that uses JPEG, MJPA, RGB, PNG, or YUV2 compression and many sound formats. MJPA, JPEG, RGB, PNG, YUV 4:2:2, and YUV 4:2:0 encoding and decoding is currently built into the library. For audio, IMA4, ulaw, 16, 8, and 24 bit linear encoding and decoding is in the library. You can still get raw data if you want to write your own compression routines.
Decoding Video
Changing the colormodel
Reading raw video
Reading keyframes
Reading raw audio
Positioning yourself in a file
Encoding VideoInformation about specific codecs
Changing the colormodel
Encoding Audio
Writing raw video
Writing keyframes
Writing raw audio
Integrated firewire and DV support