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Posted by William Davis on 06/22/06 19:59
In article <tZxmg.5443$x6.1196@trndny05>, "doc" <doc@anywhere.com>
wrote:
> nobody likes QT. we even had fits with quicktime with our macs.
>
> drd
Two strikes today, "doc."
Wow, I've got to tell you you're are the ONLY guy I've ever known who
has had ANY problem with Quicktime running on a Mac for about a decade
now!
Many knowledgeable working professionals, myself included, think it's
great simply because we NEVER have to think about it.
The QT codec is robust, completely stable, constantly evolving, supports
popular standards like i264 and best of all, used with a modern internet
connected Mac system, it's constantly updated seamlessly and free
without my lifting a finger to do so.
Want more perspective? Here's a personal experience for you.
A few months ago, I produced an instructional DVD for sale. The product
includes 133 DV clips that needed to run on BOTH PCs and MACs.
These were "plain vanilla" DV files, no extra compression or encoding.
I thought we were going to have to provide BOTH AVI and Quicktime files
for complete customer target machine compatibility - but after extensive
testing I got a surprise.
None of the "low level" PC machines we tested it with could play the QT
file without jumping through download QT for PC hoops.
But surprise, surprise - we could take the same QT file - simply batch
change the header to AVI, THEN the dumb PCs would finally recognize and
play them, PLUS Quicktime would look at those SAME files, essentially
ignore the AVI headers and also play them without a hitch.
In other words, the PCs file handling wasn't sophisticated enough to
look beyond the header info - while the Macs looked at the FILE itself
rather than just the header code - and determined that it could play the
files just fine.
Yet another modest score for simple, seamless "Apple" software.
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