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Quicktime X is a joke of an application
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plus: QTX is missing all the A/V controls (color, contrast, brightness, speed, balance, channel,...) and there's no way to get that functionality back other than using QT7. I would consider this to be a basic feature for any video player and am clueless why Apple decided to release QTX in that state.
Perian does work, actually.
I've been watching MKV today, you need to run an app to make Perian working fine with QTX
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You can fix a lot of it with a theme. I'm using this one: http://www.macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=503339 There are others on MacThemes too if you search.
And yeah, QT X blows. QT 7 would play some avi files, X doesn't play any--even with Perian.
Thanks, I just did....
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Hi Apple!
Um... seriously... no preferences for Quicktime X? I had to fiddle around in the terminal (I don't like to fiddle around in the terminal) to get my movies to auto-play.
Who came up with this? To whomever did... You, sir, are no Steve Jobs.
GIVE ME AN OPTION APPLE!!! It's there in the plist, gimme a check box, a menu check, something.... anything...
*gets down on hands & knees*
PLEASE APPLE HELP ME OUTTTTT
Feedback works much better when you present your problems clearly and without insults. Apple has made mistakes in the past and fixed them after hearing from their users.
I find your stated problem to be convoluted and vague. Do you want QTX to automatically play a movie when you insert a DVD? When you double-click on a file? You should be more specific.
I find your stated problem to be convoluted and vague. Do you want QTX to automatically play a movie when you insert a DVD? When you double-click on a file? You should be more specific.
Anyone read John Sircusa's awesome review of Snow Leopard over at ars?
Basically he says that Quicktime X is the beginning of a long and possibly painful removal of the ~20 year old Quicktime under-pinnings of the OS to something more powerful and future-proof.
Read the Arstechnica Review here.
Yeah it's funny looking now but it's a necessary change that can only get better in the future.
Basically he says that Quicktime X is the beginning of a long and possibly painful removal of the ~20 year old Quicktime under-pinnings of the OS to something more powerful and future-proof.
Read the Arstechnica Review here.
Yeah it's funny looking now but it's a necessary change that can only get better in the future.
Quicktime has never been good.
It plays a handful of file types (both audio and video). It was slow and bloated. Like someone else mentioned, this is the angriest I've ever seen anyone get towards Quicktime.
It plays a handful of file types (both audio and video). It was slow and bloated. Like someone else mentioned, this is the angriest I've ever seen anyone get towards Quicktime.
I had a licenses to quicktime pro but honestly other than a few random encodes i never really used it. I think the new quicktime is fine, my main problem with it is the huge black bar, not really liking the UI choices. Perian also worked completely out of the box with no issues at all. My question is when i specify quicktime encoding in visual hub or imovie is it using x or 7?
I think that's the longest review I've ever seen!
By the way, page 6 of the review talks about the QuickTime X theory.
Yeah, I read that and nodded to myself. QTX definitely feels like a 1.0 release from Apple. Heck, I would say it's a 0.1 beta from Apple. It's got a lot to go before it's back at its original grace. But I see the overall scope of it now. QTX is incredibly immature right now, I would say it's on the same level as the original os x 10.0 was.
But I can imagine the future, imagine Final Cut Studio running fully on QTX framework with a complete 64-bit cocoa rewrite? That should take the movie industry by storm.
Also, I can imagine with the release of iTunes 9 soon, they will be hard at work at iTunes X... hopefully it wouldn't be a completely rehash of iTunes but at least a HUGE upgrade (it's still a 32bit carbon app AFAIK and it lags like crazy)
Good to know we are now on the other side of the fence looking towards much greener pastures.
Yep, and even videos edited with those controls in QT7 don't work properly, i.e., default to old settings, in QTX. What a damn joke.
I tend to agree with the original poster of this thread. I've been on a MacBook Pro for close to a year now. Never before have I been so impressed with an OS. I have nothing bad to say about Apple or Macs. If fact I'm bummed I didn't switch to a Mac a long time ago.
I've come to expect a little more from Apple however. Called it being spoiled but for the life of me I can't figure out the thought process behind Quicktime X. It is so "un-Apple like" to release such an "upgrade". Immediately I noticed that there is no way to tell Quicktime X not to cache or retain any recent movies. Instead I now have to literally clear my Recent Menu manually. WTF?
The other and most aggravating problem is that you cannot seek or skip to the middle of a WMV file. I've removed Flip4Mac and no go. I've installed the Flip4Mac Beta for SL users and still no go. We now have to wait for the entire WMV to load before being able to seek or skip to the middle of a WMV file.
How can Apple called this an upgrade? The way I see it is that to have a border-less window (not a big selling point), you now have to forgo all other basic functions which almost every other player offers as a default. I would love to ask the head of Quicktime Dev Team what the hell he/she was thinking.
No A/V controls. What?
Why would anyone want to produce a Trim feature without giving you the ability to trim the middle of a movie? Seriously, I searched for a long time trying to figure out how to trim the middle of a movie. There was no way Apple would only allow you to trim just the beginning or end of a clip. I must be blind or doing something stupid... So I looked and looked only to find that's the way it is - Wow.
I know we can use Quicktime 7 but why would anyone want to go backwards. It's mind boggling that Quicktime X was being touted as an upgrade. The only thing I could think of is that all the features we have grown accustom to were perhaps going to be added in a week or so. Perhaps the QT team wasn't quite ready and needed to put out what they had working to match the release of SL. Someone please tell me this was the case. To just hang tight and all our preferences and more are coming out tomorrow.
Completely disappointed with Quicktime X. I strongly feel that an apology and explanation from the Quicktime Dev Team is in order. Anyone else agree?
I've come to expect a little more from Apple however. Called it being spoiled but for the life of me I can't figure out the thought process behind Quicktime X. It is so "un-Apple like" to release such an "upgrade". Immediately I noticed that there is no way to tell Quicktime X not to cache or retain any recent movies. Instead I now have to literally clear my Recent Menu manually. WTF?
The other and most aggravating problem is that you cannot seek or skip to the middle of a WMV file. I've removed Flip4Mac and no go. I've installed the Flip4Mac Beta for SL users and still no go. We now have to wait for the entire WMV to load before being able to seek or skip to the middle of a WMV file.
How can Apple called this an upgrade? The way I see it is that to have a border-less window (not a big selling point), you now have to forgo all other basic functions which almost every other player offers as a default. I would love to ask the head of Quicktime Dev Team what the hell he/she was thinking.
No A/V controls. What?
Why would anyone want to produce a Trim feature without giving you the ability to trim the middle of a movie? Seriously, I searched for a long time trying to figure out how to trim the middle of a movie. There was no way Apple would only allow you to trim just the beginning or end of a clip. I must be blind or doing something stupid... So I looked and looked only to find that's the way it is - Wow.
I know we can use Quicktime 7 but why would anyone want to go backwards. It's mind boggling that Quicktime X was being touted as an upgrade. The only thing I could think of is that all the features we have grown accustom to were perhaps going to be added in a week or so. Perhaps the QT team wasn't quite ready and needed to put out what they had working to match the release of SL. Someone please tell me this was the case. To just hang tight and all our preferences and more are coming out tomorrow.
Completely disappointed with Quicktime X. I strongly feel that an apology and explanation from the Quicktime Dev Team is in order. Anyone else agree?
All of you stop you're winning, if you want you can install quicktime 7,
and shut up The new one is much better its gamma is fixed, so stop complaning and install 7 from SL dvd
god
and shut up The new one is much better its gamma is fixed, so stop complaning and install 7 from SL dvd
god
Let's all go back to Tiger while we're at it. I think you're missing the point. As in most things in life, confirming problems and discussing them leads to solutions or unrecognized work arounds...
To ask is to stop bitching and discussing and to just use Quicktime 7 solves nothing. That's just accepting defeat.
"Failure Is Not An Aption" - Apollo 13.
Quicktime X should have been called Quicktime 7 Lite.
How cool is the new chapter view? Wicked cool! And frameless windows! And it's all shiny! Yay apple!