Description:

OpenQuicktime aims to be a portable library for handling Apple's
QuickTime (TM) popular media files on Unix-like environments. This
project was firstly designed to allow the porting of the 3ivx codec on
any Unix, but is now a completly separate and fully Open Source project.

This library is based on an enhanced version of the Quicktime 4 Linux
library. It features decoding and encoding QuickTime files, support for
standard audio and video codecs (including MP3 audio) and a plug-in
support so that non-open source codecs can be used with OpenQuicktime.

OpenQuicktime could be used by any Unix players or encoders wanting to
support the Quicktime format. OpenQuicktime is still young but is
already used by some applications. The most promising application using
OpenQuicktime is Gstreamer.