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Posted by Gary L T on 10/19/05 06:04
"sbt" <dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:181020051535034505%dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid...
> In article <dj3srf$hii$3@mughi.cs.ubc.ca>, Dave Martindale
> <davem@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>> Helpful Harry <helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com> writes:
>>
>> >It's one of the limitations that Apple have decided to put into the
>> >free version of QuickTime. If you pay to upgrade it to the Pro version
>> >you get full-screen playback (among a few other things). This is no
>> >different to many other companies that have a limited "free" version
>> >and a pay-for "pro" version.
>>
>> It's also apparently a recent change. I can remember when Quicktime
>> player would do full-screen with CNTL-3. It was an obvious extension
>> to CNTL-0 for half size, CNTL-1 for normal size, and CNTL-2 for double
>> size - which still work.
>>
>> Dave
>
> Not that recent -- I believe it was at the move from QT3 to QT4
> (predating OS X).
>
> Again, it is not a limitation of QuickTime, but of the "free" QuickTime
> Player application -- you can write any number of applications that
> call the QuickTime APIs and present movies full-screen without
> upgrading to Pro. Why they put this limitation on the player app is
> something only the honchos at Apple could tell you.
Getting back to the creation of video for the iPod, there is a tutorial
here:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/creatingvideo.html
In the small print, it says that "by following the steps in this tutorial,
QuickTime 7 Pro will automatically create an .m4v file containing H.264
video and AAC audio that is optimized for iPod. The only trouble with
using QuickTime 7 Pro is that you have to pay for this program if you
want to make iPod compatible video files, but the audio programs
are an integral part of the free iTunes software.
I wonder if anyone has actually tried and had success with using any
of the other software conversion programs that have been referred to
in this thread? It's good that several other H.264 and MPEG-4
conversion programs exist, but some are expensive, and some
may not optimize the files for iPod. But if anyone knows of a
free conversion program that has actually made files that are
optimized for iPod and really do work on iPod, I would be
interested to know of them. Do you think Apple will make
such a program free to iPod users before long?
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