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

techfreak85 said:
Nope. not gonna happen. apple wants to sell iTunes movies.
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Actually, it's illegal so that's why it won't happen. I can rip cds in iTunes and Apple wants to sell me music too so the logic is not there. DVD ripping is not covered under fair use and I believe is a violation of the DMCA.
 
Is this going to include any movement on advanced type-saving? I remember back in the old Movie Player days we could take any format and export it as any-other. I hate having to use iTunes, Garageband, or folder actions, just to convert a .aif to .mp3 for example.
 
jholzner said:
Actually, it's illegal so that's why it won't happen. I can rip cds in iTunes and Apple wants to sell me music too so the logic is not there. DVD ripping is not covered under fair use and I believe is a violation of the DMCA.
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I'm pretty sure that everyone and their mom does it with CD's, and they're just as protected.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I feel like I am.
 
lazyrighteye said:
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?
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Th 10.6 release has nothing to do with the BTS promo. Apparently, not that many Mac users upgrade (obviously members of this community are exceptions). Most of the Leopard sales, for example, were bundled sales that came with a new Mac.

There are some users who do upgrade, but upgrades represent the minority of OSX sales. It might make more sense for Apple to release 10.6 before the BTS promo in order to shift more copies of Snow Leopard. The introduction of new developer features makes the installed base of Snow Leopard extremely important to the future of the platform.
 
Myriad Pro?

Anyone noticed that the font used on the dialog box is Myriad Pro? Since when did Apple uses Myriad Pro for their apps? I think the standard fonts for Mac apps is Lucida Grande, for the iPhone it is Helvetica.

And the image look kinda suspicious too. The screenshot of Ratatouille looks exactly the same as the leaked image a couple weeks ago.
 
thejadedmonkey said:
I'm pretty sure that everyone and their mom does it with CD's, and they're just as protected.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I feel like I am.
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Actually, most CD's are not copy-protected. If they are, you can't rip them with iTunes generally. The labels figured out a long time ago that CD copy-protection caused too much trouble for even them to think it was worth it. DVD's are a different case, because the format was designed for that (remember, CD's weren't originally used for computers).

jW
 
zoffdino said:
Anyone noticed that the font used on the dialog box is Myriad Pro? Since when did Apple uses Myriad Pro for their apps? I think the standard fonts for Mac apps is Lucida Grande, for the iPhone it is Helvetica.

And the image look kinda suspicious too. The screenshot of Ratatouille looks exactly the same as the leaked image a couple weeks ago.
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Apple does use Myriad Pro a lot. I believe they used it in their banners, marketing and in some other area that I can't seem to remember now.

here's the source, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc.
 
stanton said:
Have you tried Perian?

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:
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ha ha. I was thinking the exact same thing!
This could be the next "Rip Mix Burn" -- Apple's at it again.
 
the bar

Is it just me or does the bar where the close, minimize and maximize look way different than Leopard, I thought Snow Leopard was supposed to be mostly performance upgrades with a few new features.
 
davidstechshow said:
Is it just me or does the bar where the close, minimize and maximize look way different than Leopard, I thought Snow Leopard was supposed to be mostly performance upgrades with a few new features.
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Nothing is final. Snow Leopard is still more than 3 months away.
 
dmmcintyre3 said:
Just make it work on PPC G4's!
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You read my mind.

There is no valid reason Quicktime X cannot work on PowerPC machines.

Maybe not certain older G4s, but it's going to embarrassing for Apple when it's flagship expensive largest iMac G5 and the last Powermac G5 won't run either Snow Leopard or have these features since these machines are way beyond capable of handling some of Snow Leopard's, ummmm, bug fixes and tweaks, and obviously Quicktime X.
 
davidstechshow said:
Is it just me or does the bar where the close, minimize and maximize look way different than Leopard, I thought Snow Leopard was supposed to be mostly performance upgrades with a few new features.
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It's a mock-up. No specific UI details to be found here, just an indication of how it may look.
 
jholzner said:
Actually, it's illegal so that's why it won't happen. I can rip cds in iTunes and Apple wants to sell me music too so the logic is not there. DVD ripping is not covered under fair use and I believe is a violation of the DMCA.
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DVD ripping isn't covered under Fair Use, but then again the legal doctrine of Fair Use gets misapplied a lot.

DVD ripping is legal thanks to the same court rulings and laws that make it legal to rip a CD onto your computer or record a TV show off the air for later home viewing. What's not legal, because of the DMCA, is circumventing copy protection. Currently the courts have upheld the DMCA and sh*t on 20 years of precedent. Can't say I'm really surprised though.


Lethal
 
I'm loving all of the new features that aren't supposed to be new features added in Snow Leopard so far! Keep all those features that aren't new features for Snow Leopard coming! :p
 
armoguy94 said:
Cause you can upload to Youtube through Quicktime? You think that and performance upgrades are worth 129$? :rolleyes:Haha, okay.. I'll let you do whatever you want:cool:
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Great! Most of us will advance to Snow Leopard while you enjoy Panther. :D
 
Spanky Deluxe said:
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'.
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That's why you build a plug-in architecture. Seems to me there isn't much difference between MS tying to MS only services, and Apple tying to Google only services. Let Google write their own darn exporter along with anyone else who cares to.

I guess the point I was trying to make earlier is that this feels less like MS's strategy and more like Dell littering my desktop with branded crap-- except I can't really delete it.

Aside from the fact that I have to deal with options I'll never use, it makes the OS feel tied to an era in time. Mac OS has always felt reasonably timeless to me. Dressing up your packaged OS with YouTube and Facebook are like the computer equivalent of bellbottoms or day-glo "Frankie say" tshirts. In 5 years you look back and wonder what the hell you were thinking...

If they had done this in the past, they would have linked to MySpace, or Google Video, or Napster. Now all of those services seem dated and square. I really wish I could scrape the Flickr and Facebook (and MobileMe) icons off of my iPhoto interface, and I *really* don't want this stuff permeating my core OS.

Maybe it's hip with the teenie bopper crowd, but I've got work to do...
 
HLdan said:
Great! Most of us will advance to Snow Leopard while you enjoy Panther. :D
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Way to take it out of proportion. I use Leopard right now. Upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard for $129 is not worth it in these times no matter what your justification is. Just cause you may be lucky and have plenty of money in these times, and can spend it more freely than others, does not make that $129 worth it. The performance boosts I'm willing to bet will not be anything drastic, they're probably just a necessary step Apple had to take for the future of OS X.

Have fun uploading to YouTube when it comes out!:)
 
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