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Apple Ending Support for QuickTime For Windows, Users Should Uninstall

corbindavenport said:
Honestly not much of a loss, VLC Media Player can play all QuickTime content to my knowledge.
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Not in the web browser. Though most sites seem to use HTML5 or Flash for playing videos nowadays, it's occasionally handy to have QuickTime. Other random things depend on it too.

I wish QuickTime were the most widely adopted standard. The plugin is much nicer and way, way more efficient than HTML5 or Flash for playing videos. Doesn't seem that Safari and Chrome's native WebM support is any faster. YouTube almost chokes up a low-end PC nowadays. I've got Click2Flash forcing YouTube videos to play using QuickTime instead.
 
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Thing is, some software requires QuickTime - for example Pro Tools for dealing with MP3s and other formats.

What should users of that software do?
 
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japanime said:
I think the decline in Apple logo design coincides with the dismissal of Craig Federighi. While it might be true that it was time for skeuomorphism to go by the wayside, Federighi wasn't a one-trick pony. Had he remained at Apple, Craig would have ushered in new, modern software designs that Playskool Jony can only dream about.
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Do you mean Scott Forestall?
 
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japanime said:
I think the decline in Apple logo design coincides with the dismissal of Craig Federighi. While it might be true that it was time for skeuomorphism to go by the wayside, Federighi wasn't a one-trick pony. Had he remained at Apple, Craig would have ushered in new, modern software designs that Playskool Jony can only dream about.
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Forstall... you're definitely thinking of Scott Forstall.

Craig Federighi is the current lead of software design at Apple.
 
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Well this completely screws up a lot of my workflows. My desktop PC is faster than my Mac laptop so I sometimes use it for things like DaVinci Resolve which don't get realtime playback and then render back out on the Mac again to ProRes.

So the choices for me are to either continue using insecure software, pay >$4k for a Mac Pro with out-of-date hardware or redesign all of my workflows to not use Apple codecs or QuickTime containers.
 
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bboucher790 said:
Where has Apple's icon design gone.

It's sad when an app that's been discontinued has a significantly better icon than Apple's current apps.

(QuickTime for Mac is just as irrelevant)
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People always mistake QuickTime, the container format, with QuickTime Player, the front-end application. Player was actually a poor name, because it does more than "play" media. It converts, records and shares. I use QuickTime Player to record video tutorials for how to use my software and then I upload to YouTube, all within the app.

QuickTime is still very relevant, and is deeply rooted in OS X and iOS for media playback.
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Shookster said:
Well this completely screws up a lot of my workflows. My desktop PC is faster than my Mac laptop so I sometimes use it for things like DaVinci Resolve which don't get realtime playback and then render back out on the Mac again to ProRes.

So the choices for me are to either continue using insecure software, pay >$4k for a Mac Pro with out-of-date hardware or redesign all of my workflows to not use Apple codecs or QuickTime containers.
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Keep using QuickTime for Windows. Just make sure you don't let your system get compromised. Very possible.
 
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Apple never released version of QuickTime on Windwis, instead it was for Mac-only.

Never used QuickTime in the past 2 years.

Presume Apple will still supppprt those who bought Pro keys for QuckTime on Windows.
 
haiggy said:
You got it wrong... Forstall... Scott Forstall
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Wow! I got confused for a moment, thinking I shouldn't have missed the news lately. :confused:
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amssullivan28 said:
Apple never released version of QuickTime on Windwis, instead it was for Mac-only.

Never used QuickTime in the past 2 years.

Presume Apple will still supppprt those who bought Pro keys for QuckTime on Windows.
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I never used QT on Windows either. On Mac, it's very useful for some tasks; the rest belong to VLC.
 
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This make sense at the end of the day; now that we have HTML5, there's not much of a point of keeping QuickTime around (there's still some use for QuickTime Player X on Mac, though).
 
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Hmm, I only installed QT on my Windows box because Lightroom told me I needed it to play video files. So it looks like Adobe are now introducing vulnerabilities by proxy ;)
 
Shookster said:
Well this completely screws up a lot of my workflows. My desktop PC is faster than my Mac laptop so I sometimes use it for things like DaVinci Resolve which don't get realtime playback and then render back out on the Mac again to ProRes.

So the choices for me are to either continue using insecure software, pay >$4k for a Mac Pro with out-of-date hardware or redesign all of my workflows to not use Apple codecs or QuickTime containers.
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Deprecating all your workflows without a day's notice? Yep, that's the new Apple. I think they're making it clear where they want you to do your work, and it's not on the Mac Pro.
 
corbindavenport said:
Honestly not much of a loss, VLC Media Player can play all QuickTime content to my knowledge.
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Yeah, QuickTime for Windows became pointless. Apple's own media is now in industry-standard codecs wrapped in industry-standard containers. A big change from the days when you had the Apple-specific codecs Cinepak and Sorenson, wrapped in Apple-specific container .mov. Back then, you basically needed QuickTime to watch many of the movie files out there. Then came MP4 and H.264, plus open-source players like VLC.

It's a good thing QT for Windows is no longer needed.
 
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I'm just assuming this rumor is true. Apple has not made a statement, QT is still offered for download for Windows and was updated recently. QT has a 1/year maintenance patch on Windows so when something is moving so slow, it is hard to see whether or not it is dead.

That being said, apart from some guys at some company that is actually not named Apple, QT for Windows is dead. Fine, let's go with that.

QT for Mac is dead too. No Apple statement there either, but QuickTime X is just in development hell. It gets maintenance patches perhaps slightly faster than its Windows counterpart, but it has no future if Windows QT has no future.

Apple will just end the whole thing and release the "Video" app for your Mac. So if guy on website is correct, then not only is QuickTime for Windows dead, but QuickTime for Mac is dead too.
 
Bit of a bummer seeing it go. I still use it to watch QT movie trailers I download that I want to watch (although as others have pointed it out there are open source alternatives now).

Seems like Quicktime X was a still birth and all new development for it was just dropped (beyond security updates) at that point.

Shookster said:
Well this completely screws up a lot of my workflows. My desktop PC is faster than my Mac laptop so I sometimes use it for things like DaVinci Resolve which don't get realtime playback and then render back out on the Mac again to ProRes.

So the choices for me are to either continue using insecure software, pay >$4k for a Mac Pro with out-of-date hardware or redesign all of my workflows to not use Apple codecs or QuickTime containers.
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It might not be that desperate. The last Windows update to Quicktime removed the browser plugin (the main vector for vulnerabilities). The 2 new vulnerabilities would require you to launch a compromised file that looked like a quicktime file locally (like attached to a spear phisher's e-mail) and for the bad guys Flash etc. is a much better target.

So if you need it, you should be able to get by without being too afraid of being compromised. But, you could create a Virtual Machine (VMware etc.) and install it on that for the time you need to use it - as long as you don't open up unknown quicktime files inside of the VM that should be safe.
 
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