This update does NOT fix the color issue with h.264 encoding. That bug is really getting on my nerves.
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QuickTime 7.0.3 Now Available
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Not only that, also when he was about to show the video playback on an iPod he said "lets take a look a it on an iMac" after which he has sat down and grabbed an iPodalbeik said:did anyone else notice the mistake at 00:19:39 of the stream? 160MB SATA and 250MB SATA?? I think he meant GB!
I guess he was so excited that he didn't even noticed stuff like that.BTW, it feel like the new iTunes with this QT update, plays back video much smoother.
Well QT crashes IE and FF1.6beta when I try to view the iMac Front Row tour on the Apple website.
Anyone had the same happen?
At least now the keynote streaming is much better audio synced.
Before this update, I never remember having seen any streaming Apple keynotes sync properly with the audio.
Anyone had the same happen?
At least now the keynote streaming is much better audio synced.
Before this update, I never remember having seen any streaming Apple keynotes sync properly with the audio.
7.0.3 is required because they've added support for the new DRM in the videos.cxny said:
I'm going to fire them a feedback page and complain some more. I really hope they get it together soon; it's been what, over five months now plus during the time Tiger was in beta? I wish I could remember what build that bug showed up in.Lacero said:Noooooo....!!!11!!!1!
What the bloody hell is the Apple QT development team doing? They need to take care of their pro users, pronto!
-Chase
When I first heard about PhotoBooth and Front Row, they sounded really retarded and dumb, but when I saw the demos, I was thoroughly impressed. These two apps will be HUGE sellers at the Apple Stores. They're so easy and addictive. Yes, not a technological breakthrough, but cool, fun-to-use apps.Mac_Freak said:
And Front Row is only gonna get bigger and bigger, as Apple deploy it (and the remote) across its entire product line and as they add more content. The movie trailers part is super slick. And I love how all the content is organized and presented automatically and effortlessly. Only Apple can make it all work together so seemlessly. Color me impressed. Apple's gonna have a huge holiday quarter.
Sounds like the 600mhz factor rather than a QT issue.DavidCar said:
Today's event is a .h264 file btw
download mirror please
I can't connect to the stream. Quicktime says: "no connection". (I live in the Netherlands; maybe it's a bandwidth problem)
Can someone with Quicktime Pro save the stream into a movie file and host it as a torrent file please? If needed I can track the torrent.
I can't connect to the stream. Quicktime says: "no connection". (I live in the Netherlands; maybe it's a bandwidth problem)
Can someone with Quicktime Pro save the stream into a movie file and host it as a torrent file please? If needed I can track the torrent.
Are you serious????dongmin said:
Photobooth is maybe fun for 2 or 3 times and then will just collect dust on the harddrive. Jobs just has a way to make even the most unimportant and up the pole things look as if they were THE features mankind was waiting for...
Do you really think kids will sit in front the iMac the whole day and take pictures of themselves day after day???
And FrontRow is also no big deal. Maybe interesting for teenagers, but not for the average adult computer user. Who would watch a video/DVD in the living-room on the computer screen? Exactly... nobody! Who would watch one in his (Home-)Office? I guess the same answer... nobody! Same applies to photo albums. And even using iTunes with FrontRow... actually only makes sense when the iMac is connected to a stereo. But then again I never understood why it is so bad to actually go to the computer and to select the wanted playlist there. It is not that I am changing the playlist every 2 minutes...
All this is nice, but like always it is only unimportant gadgets...
Even if they would be available for other Macs, I wouldn't waste a penny for them...
groovebuster
Exporting to ipod??
Hey,
Has anybody tried exporting movies to the iPod format? There is a new export option in quicktime that is "movie to ipod", which lets you play it on the new ipods.
Anyway, I wanted to try it out, so I took a short video, I'm talking a 15 sec. quicktime .mov file, and it took forever!! I was wondering if I did something wrong. It just feels like going from .mov to .m4v with a 15 sec video shouldn't be that long. It seems like it would be a real pain for longer videos.
-lilscoy
Hey,
Has anybody tried exporting movies to the iPod format? There is a new export option in quicktime that is "movie to ipod", which lets you play it on the new ipods.
Anyway, I wanted to try it out, so I took a short video, I'm talking a 15 sec. quicktime .mov file, and it took forever!! I was wondering if I did something wrong. It just feels like going from .mov to .m4v with a 15 sec video shouldn't be that long. It seems like it would be a real pain for longer videos.
-lilscoy
everytime I try the quicktime demo of FrontRow it crashes quicktime on my Wintel box. is this further encouragement from Steve to switch??
solved my own problem
edit: whoa, I set my desktop res to 640x480 and I got watchable framerates. I selected get info to see my FPS and on the native res of 640x360 I get 10FPS and on half res I get 13FPS. that's enjoyable, because I do admit that H.264 delivers a sharp image.
Quicktime gave an error the next time I tried it: error: kOTPortLostConnection = -3285. (Open Transport). When I changed my quicktime streaming protocol to HTTP port 80 the stream worked. see this movie. Too bad I am struggling with the same problem as DavidCar. I have a 550mhz G4 and it is too slow to watch H.264 (I which they didn't use that worthless codec). I do get normal sound, but on normal resolution I get 1.5FPS and on half resolution I get about 5FPS. That's good enough to understand it but ipodly small (320x180). well I just set my desktop res to 640x480, that bigs things up.isgoed said:
edit: whoa, I set my desktop res to 640x480 and I got watchable framerates. I selected get info to see my FPS and on the native res of 640x360 I get 10FPS and on half res I get 13FPS. that's enjoyable, because I do admit that H.264 delivers a sharp image.
isgoed said:
If you look at Apple's specs for running movies with the h.264 codec the requirements are significantly higher than your system specs (last I remember checking anyway) so that obviously explains your slow frames. It does suck they would release and seemingly attempt to standardize a codec that many people cannot play effectively....sad move.
I edited my post at the same time as you replied. I now get a respectable FPS and I wouldn't be suprised if this stream is only 15FPS. Probably those extra bytes of freed video memory (16mb total) made the difference. The real heavy system requirements you are probably refering to are those for HD, see http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/recommendations.html, although the requirements for lower resolution video's are also more steep than those of other codecs on the same bitrate. And there are a lot of codecs that my computer can play at far higher resolutions and bitrates that this lousy stream (DVD for example). The advantage is it's small file size. If Apple was nice they would not push this codec, but maybe it is Apple's strategy to force me into upgrading. Since the only reason computer manufacturers can sell computers is by having more demanding software.efoto said:
groovebuster said:Are you serious????
Photobooth is maybe fun for 2 or 3 times and then will just collect dust on the harddrive. Jobs just has a way to make even the most unimportant and up the pole things look as if they were THE features mankind was waiting for...
Do you really think kids will sit in front the iMac the whole day and take pictures of themselves day after day???
And FrontRow is also no big deal. Maybe interesting for teenagers, but not for the average adult computer user. Who would watch a video/DVD in the living-room on the computer screen? Exactly... nobody! Who would watch one in his (Home-)Office? I guess the same answer... nobody! Same applies to photo albums. And even using iTunes with FrontRow... actually only makes sense when the iMac is connected to a stereo. But then again I never understood why it is so bad to actually go to the computer and to select the wanted playlist there. It is not that I am changing the playlist every 2 minutes...
All this is nice, but like always it is only unimportant gadgets...
Even if they would be available for other Macs, I wouldn't waste a penny for them...
groovebuster
What he said.
aegisdesign said:
You just have to know where to look: http://labs.divx.com/
(http://download.divx.com/labs/DivXFusionBeta3.dmg specifically)
Be sure to remove your older DivX codec first contained in /Library/Quicktime. Removing it will probably require a reboot or logout/login in order to remove the files from Trash.
Sdashiki said:
Thanks for putting in the effort to share your thoughts with us. To save you even more work next time I suggest simply saying "ditto" - it requires far less typing.
Seriously though, just because someone doesn't find value in something does not make it "unimportant". Many people will indeed find Front Row useful and many people will indeed use Photo Booth more than once. Just because one person doesn't find value in these features doesn't mean everyone feels the same way. For an individual to call something useless and unimportant simply because he or she personally sees no value in it is short-sighted, selfish and ignorant.
If someone doesn't like a new product, fine, that's cool - they just shouldn't condemn it as crap simply because it doesn't fit their personal needs, that's all.