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Cool movies, did you shoot them? I know this isn't isn't the place for this but I respresent some movie distributors here in Japan. E-mail me Brett.
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Cool movies, did you shoot them? I know this isn't isn't the place for this but I respresent some movie distributors here in Japan. E-mail me Brett.
ceo@ragejapan.com
Apologies to everyone else for using this space.
AFAIK Quicktime 6 Pro never exported MPEG2, DVDSP installs the codec to do this so if you reinstall DVDSP you'll get the ability back.
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News blurbs? One might complain about the ergonomics of viewing news content on a watchface-sized screen, but have you ever tried to read news on one? blah blah blah scroll blah blah blah scroll... sucks. I say bring on the MPEG4 phones - just make sure you can only play the audio through a damned headset, who wants to be immersed in a cacophony of tinny little speakers playing various feeds? Not I...
Who cares about Divx, FIX QT Pro first
DivX, what's that, an installed base of 2 million, worldwide? Who cares?
Apple should fix the existing Pro version and trash their lame so-called 'editing', you know, the edits without sound to .mov and .avi formats. Sheesh, and there's already MPEG2 encoders floating around, pple can relax on that too. But DivX, fugettaboutit.
Having more 'features' and the same old bugs [anyone enjoying the Final Cut Pro/QT6 experience? <Laughs>]....that's reminiscent of the Microsoft Way, just a bit, isn't it?
Spare us Apple, the PotentialWare thing is getting old.Take some guys off the Calendar-iChat 'goof' and get 'em on sorting out QT...and start with the downloaded windows QT files that "May have a video track problem", and the "You need additional software to play this QuickTime movie, UNFORTUNATELY it is not available at the QuickTime site". Gimme a f*****g break.
DivX, what's that, an installed base of 2 million, worldwide? Who cares?
Apple should fix the existing Pro version and trash their lame so-called 'editing', you know, the edits without sound to .mov and .avi formats. Sheesh, and there's already MPEG2 encoders floating around, pple can relax on that too. But DivX, fugettaboutit.
Having more 'features' and the same old bugs [anyone enjoying the Final Cut Pro/QT6 experience? <Laughs>]....that's reminiscent of the Microsoft Way, just a bit, isn't it?
Spare us Apple, the PotentialWare thing is getting old.Take some guys off the Calendar-iChat 'goof' and get 'em on sorting out QT...and start with the downloaded windows QT files that "May have a video track problem", and the "You need additional software to play this QuickTime movie, UNFORTUNATELY it is not available at the QuickTime site". Gimme a f*****g break.
I'd say "You've got to be kidding" but it sounds too harsh. What kind of insulting kindergarten programming is going on over there that they make users enter a path to the program.
I like to try out software any everything... but I don't even think I've got a file it will play... not that I'd know anyway because I didn't have the patience to waste my time figuring out the path demands it was making.
With such a ill thought out offering... you've got to be kidding.
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There is a lot of misinformation going on here IMHO.
DivX is a video codec (NOT audio; it is video-only). QuickTime, AFAIK, supports DivX codecs. Not out of the box, but you just throw the 3ivX codec in your Library/Quicktime which is easily available and downloable for free from 3ivx.com, and you can transparently watch almost whatever divx content out there (there are only a few problematic, nowadays hard to find, files with the first, now obsolete, divx format, which is very very old now, and even the divx team apostatize).
The main problem with Quicktime and those movies with DivX video is that Quicktime does not fully support the Avi architecture, and note I am not talking about particular codecs, but the whole way an Avi file is supposed to be internally structured, whatever codec it is using. Quicktime decodes their video right away if you have the appropiate codec, which, as I said, is fairly easy to get. The problem is that the audio in those files will usually be in MP3 format, and while QuickTime is indeed able to decode MP3 audio, it is not able to decode MP3 audio inside Avi files. This is like this, wether the video is DivX, Cinepak, Indeo or whatever.
What needs to be fixed, because, mind you, it IS a bug, is MP3 decoding inside avis. It has NOTHING to do with DivX.
If what some of you are asking is off-the-shelf DivX decoding, that is another story, the reason why most people trying to read divx in Macs are blaming Apple about QuickTime is that they cannot HEAR the audio whatever codec/file they download and install in their computers (unless they take not so easy and comfortable measures to translate that avi to a mov). Not a lot of those people would really care if Apple supported that off-the-shelf of not, if not supporting it would simply require to download a simple codec to solve the problem.
DivX is a video codec (NOT audio; it is video-only). QuickTime, AFAIK, supports DivX codecs. Not out of the box, but you just throw the 3ivX codec in your Library/Quicktime which is easily available and downloable for free from 3ivx.com, and you can transparently watch almost whatever divx content out there (there are only a few problematic, nowadays hard to find, files with the first, now obsolete, divx format, which is very very old now, and even the divx team apostatize).
The main problem with Quicktime and those movies with DivX video is that Quicktime does not fully support the Avi architecture, and note I am not talking about particular codecs, but the whole way an Avi file is supposed to be internally structured, whatever codec it is using. Quicktime decodes their video right away if you have the appropiate codec, which, as I said, is fairly easy to get. The problem is that the audio in those files will usually be in MP3 format, and while QuickTime is indeed able to decode MP3 audio, it is not able to decode MP3 audio inside Avi files. This is like this, wether the video is DivX, Cinepak, Indeo or whatever.
What needs to be fixed, because, mind you, it IS a bug, is MP3 decoding inside avis. It has NOTHING to do with DivX.
If what some of you are asking is off-the-shelf DivX decoding, that is another story, the reason why most people trying to read divx in Macs are blaming Apple about QuickTime is that they cannot HEAR the audio whatever codec/file they download and install in their computers (unless they take not so easy and comfortable measures to translate that avi to a mov). Not a lot of those people would really care if Apple supported that off-the-shelf of not, if not supporting it would simply require to download a simple codec to solve the problem.
Hi,
My 'slight' against DivX wasn't actually against DivX, it was against the idea that Apple should waste time with it. I already use the DivX decoder and codecs, no problem. The problem with QuickTime isn't lack of support for additional codecs, it IS lack of functionality inside the codecs it already 'supports', namely the pathetically crippled editing mechanism in QT Pro. Even in my ranting bad attitude i realize that apple has the work cut out for them to 're-split' the audio and video tracks in order to have even limited editing available, but when they advertise "Edit, cut, copy, and paste QuickTime videos...blah blah blah", they should back it up Before the release, or give away the app as a beta [which is what it is, compared to its actual abilities vs. its advertised abilities] and charge for it when its really working.
I would say you have to be kidding. I just downloaded a graphical installer and it works pefectly, no command lines or anything, just a regular application. I can play movies i've never been able to play with anything before, including partially downloaded .dat files from kazaa. Thanks to whoever posted the link in the first place.
Alas that doesn't work on all AVIs. AVIs with old codecs like Indeo 3 don't work in Mac OS X at all no matter what program I choose. And there are some sites on the web that only save their AVIs in that format. Yet Quicktime for Mac OS 9 is able to handle Indeo 3. Just not the Mac OS X version.