Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Snow Leopard QuickTime X Player to Offer Integrated Video Sharing Features?

It would be nice if QuickTime would also rip DVDs and create iPod ready files.
 
Interesting that they are adding consumer features to Snow Leopard. I really do wonder how they are going to get consumers to upgrade if there aren't any major new "features." If consumers don't upgrade, what is the point of developers working hard on apps exclusive to Snow Leopard that consumers can't run?

Me thinks there's more to be revealed at WWDC.
 
burtx said:
Statements with a question mark at the end in the headlines are starting to get really annoying. Is this Fox News?
Click to expand...
Welcome to the wonderful world of rumor-based Apple news. Or as I like to call it, not much news. So is 10.5.7 coming out today or what? :rolleyes:
 
Wow...slow news day? I mean it's cool, but doesn't seem worthy of an entire thread...?
 
It seems to me that the OS shouldn't be catering to specific services like this. If a third party wants to write a QT exporter that users can install, that's fine, but for some reason integrating it with the OS, especially a tool like QT, just seems to cheesy.

That said, the Google bar in Safari doesn't bother me as much. Maybe it's just a question of services I use versus those I don't. I just hope I don't have to deal with "Export to YouTube" and "Export to Facebook" in my menus...

(I do find it amusing that whoever did that "mockup" is implying it will make it easier to upload Pixar movies to YouTube)
 
dagamer34 said:
Interesting that they are adding consumer features to Snow Leopard. I really do wonder how they are going to get consumers to upgrade if there aren't any major new "features." If consumers don't upgrade, what is the point of developers working hard on apps exclusive to Snow Leopard that consumers can't run?

Me thinks there's more to be revealed at WWDC.
Click to expand...

I think all the features that have been unveiled so far, and arnt major/advertised and actually do stay within the "No new features" statement that they have said. To me they have always implied its the little things and overall user experience.
 
well, this is a neat advancement.

But.... I WANT BLU-RAY movie playback!!! apple stop stonewalling on this.
 
Jowl said:
All I want from Quicktime X is AC3 passthrough so I can have 5.1 sound!
Click to expand...
Have you tried Perian?
I personally use VLC for straight pass through on TOSLink (optical).

On a side note, is it just me or does anyone else find it ironic that the picture seems to be promoting uploading Ratatouille to YouTube? :rolleyes:
 
Analog Kid said:
It seems to me that the OS shouldn't be catering to specific services like this. If a third party wants to write a QT exporter that users can install, that's fine, but for some reason integrating it with the OS, especially a tool like QT, just seems to cheesy.

That said, the Google bar in Safari doesn't bother me as much. Maybe it's just a question of services I use versus those I don't. I just hope I don't have to deal with "Export to YouTube" and "Export to Facebook" in my menus...

(I do find it amusing that whoever did that "mockup" is implying it will make it easier to upload Pixar movies to YouTube)
Click to expand...

Apple has been partnered with Google/YouTube for a while now. Hence the YouTube apps on the iPhone and the AppleTV. Microsoft prefers to do everything its own way and build up a monopoly whereas Apple prefers to partner with key third party businesses and get a kind of 'shared monopoly'.
 
burtx said:
Statements with a question mark at the end in the headlines are starting to get really annoying. Is this Fox News?
Click to expand...

No its macRUMORS. This is an unconfirmed rumor with the question mark suggesting the possibility.

If you want cold hard facts, go to fox news. Oh wait...strike that...:D
 
MacFly123 said:
I'm assuming you don't have QuickTime Pro or you would NEVER say that!

Sounds good and easy to me. :D
Click to expand...

i upgraded to pro a while back... wish i didn't! i would rather have the money than have pro... then again i'm not into handling a large amount of videos....

i have about 200 movies but thats a little different
 
Although obviously Apple will not be able to do it for copy restricted media like hollywood DVDs, it would be awesome if they build in "one-click" conversion of open videos to multiple iPod/iPhone formats --- and the twist being it would take advantage of your GPU for accelerated encoding via OpenCL!
 
cthielen said:
This also weakly suggests that video uploader in the 3.0 firmware will debut as well, hopefully on a video-enabled iPhone this June. :)
Click to expand...

Right. Does that make anyone else think 10.6 will be here at (or close to) June's 3.0 release? Might be weird to have this video upload feature on the phone but not in the OS. Maybe?

I wasn't expecting 10.6 until late summer/fall (read: after BTS promos). But maybe we'll see it sooner than that?
Might mean we see 10.5.7 within the next couple of weeks?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back