Apple kept going on and on about the flaws associated with 7.6.3 that are now fixed. I wouldn't have installed quicktime 7 on sl if i couldn't update it.
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Why won't apple upgrade quicktime to 7.6.4 in snow leopard?
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At installation, you have the option to install QuickTime 7 as well as QuickTime X.
Anyways OP, most likley, the bugs that were fixed in 7.6.4 were not needed for Snow Leopard OR are already there in QuickTime. Apple has a reason for everything, trust me, everything is happening at Apple for a reason.
Why would you want both Quicktime 7 and Quicktime X installed. Does one do something the other does?
Yes. 7 works with more codecs and plugins. There are several write-ups on the web describing all this..
QuickTime X plays hardly any files, plugins don't work (yet), it has no preferences - you can't set it to play movies automatically when opened, the GUI is pretty ugly too. QuickTime X is no where near completion obviously - but as a framework for OS X it is pretty neat. Not as a player though.
QuickTime 7 allows us to continue doing what we were doing before - view .wmv's, .avi's with unsupported codecs etc. Play movies automatically, and best of all, frame by frame skipping without the on-screen controls blocking the media!
The under-the-hood improvements of QuickTime X are great, but as a Player, it has a long way to go.
After I installed SL Quick time 7 does not work at all for me
none of the QT movies I have will open when I try to open a QT movie I get
real player to open with out sound or video.
Or I get Quick Time Player must be installed to run this application.
and quick time player is installed I never took it out.
Nothing works.
none of the QT movies I have will open when I try to open a QT movie I get
real player to open with out sound or video.
Or I get Quick Time Player must be installed to run this application.
and quick time player is installed I never took it out.
Nothing works.
They are completely redoing QT from the ground up. They only have basic features ready, so the previous version is still avaliable, but will be replaced once the new version is complete. Probably added it to SL to show off more 64 bit apps, and since they haven't done it with iTunes yet they needed a media player that could begin to utilize it.