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Posted by Dave on 06/23/06 09:52
William Davis wrote:
> In article <tZxmg.5443$x6.1196@trndny05>, "doc" <doc@anywhere.com>
> wrote:
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>>nobody likes QT. we even had fits with quicktime with our macs.
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>>drd
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> 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.
Totally agree with you here William, especially the part about
evolving. Its nice to know their's a company actively developing QT as
opposed to AVI which is kind of this free for all open source type
system, with no real development at all, and no future that I can see
either.
Can't tell you how many times I've loaded up an AVI file on my pc, only
to be told that I can watch or even hear it because I'm missing some
obscure codec.. With QT, you just play it, and it always works.
dave
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