That, at least, will allow your users to install QuickTime without a half-dozen dialogs (and without those annoying pictures of surfers in bikinis). Your best bet, AFAIK, is to use the full QuickTime installer (all 20MB of it), and have your main installer run it with a 'silent' flag. I would definitely not distribute 'QuickTime Lite' without consulting with either a lawyer or your Apple licensing representative. Many CD-replication companies will actually request proof of this agreement before printing large numbers of CDs. You're not allowed to redistribute any of the QuickTime libraries without a written agreement with Apple. If you need to redistribute QuickTime, see QuickTime Licensing for details. FreeImage to load images, perhaps DirectShow for video/audio). ), then I should be seriously looking at alternative solutions (e.g.

If there is no sane way to install Quicktime runtime without side effects (changed file associations, extra icons. In my application, I'd use Quicktime to import images, movies and audio files in various formats. Is there a way to 'just install the libraries' for Quicktime?

installs Quicktime Player, which I don't need in fact.

installs some service/process (qttask) that presumably watches for Quicktime associations, or handles auto-updates.

hijacks file associations, (e.g.mov becomes associated with Quicktime Player, even if it was associated with something else before).

creates Quicktime player shortcut on desktop and in quick launch bar.

However, that way it has several side effects: I could bundle whole quicktime installer (about 20 MiB), and launch it with MSI's silent/unattended flag. What I'm looking for is some sort of 'quicktime redistributable'.Īs of now (quicktime 7.x), I can't find a way to do that.

If my application uses Quicktime, I'd like to install the necessary libraries with it's installer, thus not requiring user to install Quicktime separately. There's Quicktime SDK for Windows, but any application that uses it needs quicktime runtime libraries to be installed on the system (SDK itself just has headers and library stubs, and not the actual DLLs).

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