Can someone specifically reference or list the "missing" features that might require a Quicktime 7 install? I care much less about basic edit functions, and more about codecs that might no longer be available for playback or export in a "standard" install of Quicktime X, versus 7 Pro. Thanks in advance!
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OS X Snow Leopard Tidbits: On Demand QuickTime 7 Installation
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Good to know that they are not adding 3G network to the MacBook, hehe, I just bought a new one xD
.qtz is the first format that I see that cannot be played with QTX. All the standard video formats work just fine and with perian installed you can play pretty much everything you can think of.
Am I the only QuickTime user who, upon reading this story about QuickTime X and QuickTime 7 became slightly bamboozled by the numerous mentions of QuickTime so frequently in one paragraph, and so had to re-read the story about QuickTime X in Snow Leopard and its relationship to QuickTime 7 about 7 times until I finally understood what the paragraph with all the mentions about QuickTime in it actually meant at all?
(sorry, it's very hot, I think my brain has fried)
(sorry, it's very hot, I think my brain has fried)
hmmm... i have no idea what this is all about, but i cannot image to leave VLC. most of the "incredible" UI improvements have been standard for VLC for ages.... well not exactly the same but, for example, i don't see the disappearing bars beeing that revolutionary. why would i want to watch a full-length-movie in window-mode? i wouldn't, so how do i benefit from something i already have in fullscreen....
don't take it to serious, the improvements are nice, but VLC just plays EVERYTHING.
don't take it to serious, the improvements are nice, but VLC just plays EVERYTHING.
You can get it here: http://www.zugakousaku.com/index.php?ref=works-20th-osx--enThis is kinda off-topic, but would anyone happen to have the 20th century voyage screensaver shown in the video? The file is MIA on the developer's site.
Please - for all that is holy in this world - please still have the "frame counter" built into the QT Player!!!!!
It took over a decade for Apple to finally include it (not the timecode counter - the frame counter!!) If it's gone that will majorly suck for all of us that use QT in production.
It took over a decade for Apple to finally include it (not the timecode counter - the frame counter!!) If it's gone that will majorly suck for all of us that use QT in production.
Yeah, I cracked up at the music in that vid. It made me think of Conan "Vroom Vroom Get the Potty Stotted" O'Brien.
As far as I'm aware, no one has yet seen a "QuickTime X Pro" -- but there must be one coming.
What flawed in the process here is that there are external releases for the Mac OS X stuff. Limited distribution, but it is external. For Windows they have to release on XP , Vista, and Windows 7. No known beta tests? Just ship on the same time frame as the stuff that has been beta tested for last year or so.
Maybe Apple has some NDA that is working better for Windows than it is for Mac OS X. (e.g., using a diverse Microsoft testing lab). However, totally off the radar scope and then surprise, it is on the market.... usually doesn't lead to low defect software.
If refactoring Quicktime get rid of the portions of Carbon that made it a pain to port that would make some sense that the internals changed. The forerunner of Cocoa was Yellowbox ( Next/Openstep libraries) which was multiplatform.
For standard audio/video formats it would make more sense to hand that off to OS services so can be dispatched to more effective decoders (e.g., standard video decoding which may go to CPU/GPU/etc. depending upon what hardware is present. ). Opens a question if QT is needed on Windows long term.
There will be no QuickTime X Pro - Apple is discontinuing the Pro version (at least for now). The good thing is that certain features (like export features) and new features (HTTP streaming and stream saving) are going to be available for everyone without that 'trialware' tag begging you to buy Pro. The bad thing is that certain low-used features (like the cut/copy/paste editing) will be removed in favor of the more simpler trimming feature.
The more advanced QuickTime options have been implemented by other (better) tools in the same price range or alternatively by programs from the iLife suite.
I heard this from a source within Apple close to the QuickTime team.
I'm pretty sure Flip4Mac has always worked with it.
I've been using it since I installed Snow Leopard a few days after WWDC.
Yep iMovie 09 now does all that QuickTime Pro does and then some, QTP is a waste of resources now, all apple needs from it is to be a slick player, which QTX definately is.
Even more reason to hang on to a copy of QT Pro 7 then eh. I use those functions quite often.
