> Anyone know much about how the crossover plugin works? It doesn't use > Wine, I'm told and it appears not to just run the quicktime player, but > embedd it somehow. How would you install quicktime with this plugin? If is > works well, I'll go grab it at $20 and have quicktime in linux! The installer is brain dead simple. Run the installer (not as root, made for single user right now.) Anway, the installer runs, detects any supported browsers, and adds the CrossOver plugin. The you run the CrossOver setup to add windows plugins to crossover. Pretty slick overall, and getting it working in Netscape 4.77 was totally painless. I was streaming trailers from www.apple.com/trailers in no time. The slider bar in QuickTime didn't really work, but if you've used quickTime you know that slider bar isn't all that useful in the first place so no big loss. Getting it going in Mozilla wouldn't be hard if my user had acces to the mozilla install directory. Apperently Mozilla doesn't support plugins in your home directory yet. Haven't really tried Shockwave or the office viewers yet. And the QuickTime player doesn't seem to come up on it's own. As a brower plugin, it definitly works. If it's worth it to you to spend $20 not to reboot to watch quicktime trailers, go for it. It runs better than it does in VMWare, and it's cheaper to boot. :) Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org "We can learn much more from wise words, little from wisecracks and less from wise guys." --William Arthur Ward On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Ben Luey wrote: > So I was at LinuxWorld Expo in SF today (live there when not at college), > and Codeweavers announced that they've finished the crossover plug-in. It > supposedly lets you run quicktime and shockwave / macromedia and ms word > /excel viewer and other windows netscape plugins in linux netscape (or > mozilla or konqueror, I think). Unforunately, the person at the booth > wasn't too tech savy and just showed a quicktime movie being played off > the hard drive (but not streamed). > > > > also, IBM had a huge presence at LinuxWorld, as did Sun. StarOffice 6.0 > looks to be much better / faster than 5.2 with decent font and printing > and no desktop integration stuff. Corel was no where to be seen, but they > are trying to sell there Linux stuff, so.... Intel and Amd were out in > force also -- AMD touting there i86-64 specs which they made public two > years at ago the expo. > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >