Apple Intermediate Codec

[soderstrom]

I'm done with Apple! Everything they stand for is a lie! After using a Macbook for more than a year now I finally noticed why. Everything I do, from working with multimedia or buying music on iTunes locks me to only play or work with media on Apple' Mac OS X. I wanted to sell my Macbook and stay with Linux on a Dell laptop, but have around 90 gig of video clips iMovie decided to convert to AIC - Apple Intermediate Codec along with a few albums bought from iTunes. When I tried to play them in Mint 9 I got an error the codec could not be found and could only hear the sound. Even VLC media player gave me an error.

So guess apple, like most things they produce, have made it so we can't use the files on other systems than their own.

Sorry for the anger, I just feel so cheated by Apple. Wanted to ask here anyway if there is a workaround to be able to encode AIC files on Linux?

/ Soderstrom

[JasonLG]

While reading the very short Wikipedia article on Apple Intermediate Codec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Intermediate_Codec) I came across a link to MPEG Streamclip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_Streamclip) a freeware Windows program that you could try to get running in WINE that was supposedly able to at least play AIC files.

[soderstrom]

While reading the very short Wikipedia article on Apple Intermediate Codec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Intermediate_Codec) I came across a link to MPEG Streamclip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_Streamclip) a freeware Windows program that you could try to get running in WINE that was supposedly able to at least play AIC files.

Thanks for the help, really appreciate it and didn't think of reading the wikipedia about the codec. Will have it in mind next time. The problem is still that I need to encode the files, so guess I just have to do that on mac and then continue working with the files on linux in a format that will not remove to much of the original videos quality.

Annoying it has gone this far just because Apple wants to control what their costumers does on their system. Steve Jobs is a freaking dictator!