OS X Snow Leopard Tidbits: On Demand QuickTime 7 Installation

[amorya]

.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.

Perian can only be used with Quicktime 7, not with Quicktime X. There is currently no API in Quicktime X for third party codecs.

 

[SydneyDev]

Doing complete rewrite is almost never a good idea. New developers see something that looks old and bloated to them and convince management to rewrite it, only to find those features are there for a reason, and now with th e cut down version they have suddenly lost their lead on the competition.

Ideally they should have stuck with Quicktime 7 and refactored in the best parts of the QT X code. But too late for that now, so why not include 7 on the OS disk, even if hidden? Why force people to download it. This is not a cool piece of convenience, but Apple wasting people's bandwidth for no good reason.

 

[amorya]

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.

The only video format supported by Quicktime X currently is H264. All others use Quicktime 7's engine, which is still there and supported.

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

The only video format supported by Quicktime X currently is H264. All others use Quicktime 7's engine, which is still there and supported.

Yeah, I have a feeling there will be a lot less of a need to download QT7 by the time the GM build of Snow Leopard gets released.

 

[DsurioN]

You can get it here: http://www.zugakousaku.com/index.php?ref=works-20th-osx--en

Ah thanks a lot man, I looked everywhere else

 

[fef714]

iMovie '06 -> iMovie '08 (iMovie '06 offered concurrently)
iMovie '09 (better than both)

Quicktime 7 Player -> Quicktime X Player (Quicktime 7 Player offered concurrently)
Quicktime X Player 2 (better than both, possibly)

OMG, NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOO, iMovie '09 is NOT better then iMovie HD 6.
It may be better then '08, but not '06.

The thing that was lost in the new iMovie was not so much features or effects, but the intuitive timeline, and the whole UI.

iMovie '09 still features that awful scrubber thing. It works in iPhoto, but not iMovie.

I'm still kinda mad about this. Although I use FCE anyway, so why should I care.


Sorry about my rant, but I believe that the new iMovie is one of the few things that Apple has completely botched.

I cannot think of another Apple screwup... Unless you count the Rokr as Apple

 

[fef714]

Ah thanks a lot man, I looked everywhere else

Okay, what is that? I just went to the site and was like WHAT!?!?

 

[iAlexG]

Cant wait for snow leopard!!! Quicktime X should be good

 

[dariusperkins]

OMG, NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOO, iMovie '09 is NOT better then iMovie HD 6....
...I believe that the new iMovie is one of the few things that Apple has completely botched.

Too right. I'm a certified pro in Final Cut, use Avid, and teach kids iMovie.

The new version, whilst providing an 'easy in' to video editing for some, teaches a different paradigm of editing than industry practice. The interface is horrible, fine-tuned edits difficult to access, and it's generally a dogturd piece of duplo software that isn't fit to edit the .3GPs off a telephone.

 

[llemtt]

The only video format supported by Quicktime X currently is H264. All others use Quicktime 7's engine, which is still there and supported.

That's interesting, in fact I removed all the h264 components around and QT X was still able to play h264 movies... how the hell it does?