使用 Homebrew 安装 libquicktime

项目链接

• 主页

命令和别名

• lqt_transcode
• lqtremux
• qt2text
• qtdechunk
• qtdump
• qtinfo
• qtrechunk
• qtstreamize
• qtyuv4toyuv

项目历史

The SourceForge project was registered on 2002-02-08 and its news page records the 0.9.0 release on 2002-05-21. The README describes libquicktime as based on quicktime4linux, but with autoconf, automake, libtool, system codec-library detection, dynamically loadable codecs, and source compatibility goals for quicktime4linux applications such as Cinelerra and xmovie.

The project sits in the early-2000s Linux multimedia lineage, when QuickTime, AVI, MP4, and codec support were fragmented across libraries, plugins, and external codec packages. Its design reflects that era: split codecs from the core library, depend on system JPEG, Ogg Vorbis, libpng, libdv, and similar libraries, and expose command-line utilities for transcoding, remuxing, dumping, and stream preparation.

采用历史

libquicktime was packaged by Unix distributions because older video applications needed a LGPL library for QuickTime containers without bundling every codec. The input package-manager metadata lists Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Ubuntu, and openSUSE packages, and the SourceForge file page records the 1.2.4 tarball as the downloadable source release.

使用方式

Package users typically use libquicktime indirectly through applications or directly through tools such as lqt_transcode, lqtremux, qtdump, qtinfo, and qtstreamize for inspecting or converting old QuickTime-family media.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

libquicktime is a fossil from the pre-FFmpeg-everywhere multimedia stack. It is significant because it shows how distributions used modular codec libraries and LGPL container code to make proprietary-era media formats usable on free Unix desktops.

时间线

• 2002: SourceForge project registered on 2002-02-08.
• 2002: libquicktime 0.9.0 released on 2002-05-21.
• 2006: libquicktime 0.9.9 announced with improved codec and file-format support.
• 2012: SourceForge file browser listed the libquicktime package tree dated 2012-03-29.
• 2024: SourceForge project metadata recorded an activity update on 2024-02-03.

Related projects

• libquicktime is directly related to quicktime4linux, Cinelerra, xmovie, FFmpeg plugin code, libdv, libpng, libjpeg, and Ogg Vorbis libraries. It also belongs to the same historical multimedia packaging neighborhood as other SourceForge-era video libraries.

来源

• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/libquicktime
• https://libquicktime.sourceforge.net/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/libquicktime/git/ci/master/tree/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/libquicktime/news/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/libquicktime/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/libquicktime/files/