Quicktime and AOL 9.0 Integration

[Makosuke]

Originally posted by MisterMe
You're wrong about this. First off, you claim that QuickTime sucks on Windows, but you have never used QuickTime on Windows. That is most certainly not the way a professional does business. QuickTime Pro exports to any of the formats for which you have a codec installed. For example, if you export your project to DivX, AVI, MPEG4, or whatever, then your Windows-using friends would have no clue that you edited it using QuickTime.

Late enough on this reply that nobody cares, but anyway...

I'm not a professional, and I'm not doing business. In my professional life, I *do* use QuickTime--HTTP audio streaming, for example, which has worked quite well.

I also never said I wasn't using QuickTime as my editing platform--on the contrary, who in their right mind would use anything else? That also wasn't my point.

My point was that I was trying to distribute a large video file to a small number of picky, mostly Windows users, completely for fun on both parts, and none of them wanted anything to do with QuickTime. My test group was quite willing to give the player a shot, but (apparently, anyway--like I said, all I have to go by is what the people I was talking to tell me) there are much better video players on Windows, and QT Player was slow at best, and generally unstable. And so far the "popular" (among my target audience) players don't support QT-produced MP4 files--stupid MP3 audio tracks expected on Win.

Anyway, I'd love for QT to be the be-all and end-all of video on Windows, but at this point that just doesn't seem to be the case. Maybe this AOL business will help, though.