[Vorbis] Ogg Vorbis QuickTime Component

[John Morton]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 03:53, Jason Detwiler wrote:

> Unfortunately, this plug-in (a Quicktime component) crashes iTunes for
> the latest version of Quicktime (7). Despite over a month's worth of
> complaints about this (see the messages posted at the above web page),
> the component still has not been updated, and no one appears to be
> working on it. So despite last month's post on this list by John
> Morton on Mon May 2 19:35:47 PDT 2005, in which he stated that "the
> software still builds and works everywhere",

I was talking about the Xiph maintained libraries, specifically. 

>  it is impossible to play
> ogg files on iTunes for users of Mac OS 10.4 (it comes with Quicktime
> 7 and cannot be down-graded, as is the case for previous versions of
> the OS). Of course, getting another player is possible, but then users
> need two players, one for their ogg files and one for their iTunes
> files.
> 
> So my question for the vorbis list is: do any of you know who to
> contact about this Ogg Vorbis Quicktime Component? I would even be
> willing to get involved in it if I had any idea what to do.

The quicktime component is a third party plugin which can be found here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtcomponents/

Looks like it's been orphaned since late 2002. The best thing to do
would be to grab the source code, try to build them against the latest
quicktime SDK and figure out what's going wrong. Go fishing in the bug
database and the forums for other interested users who might be able to
help with testing. If you can get hold of the original developers, you
might be able to continue using the sourceforge resources to make new
release, otherwise you might need to fork the project.

John