This is a Quicktime front end for UNIX in a library. Building: Quicktime for Linux requires a built copy of of libmpeg3 in a directory next to itself. This is used for the mp3 interface. Your directory structure should thus be: /my_directory /my_directory/libmpeg3-*.*.* /my_directory/quicktime4linux-*.*.* type "make" in the libmpeg3 directory. type "make" in the quicktime directory. type "make util" to get quicktime to build some utilities.