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Posted by Spex on 09/22/06 19:38
Jukka Aho wrote:
> Spex wrote:
>
>> Seriously, unless the video needs to be embedded in an interactive
>> application a la Flash I steer towards QT. I like the uncluttered
>> minimalist footprint of the QT web plugin.
>
> The QT plugin, at least in Windows environment, doesn't seem to have a
> full-screen mode, which is a big, big minus.
You need QT Pro for that.
>
> Also, in order to have the QT plugin installed on a Windows system, you
> first need to install the QuickTime player, which is everything but
> minimalistic in its cluttered rounded-edges weird-UI theming craze.
Real and MPC are aesthetic classics are they?
>
> If someone wants to play back QT files in a minimalistic, clean way on a
> Windows system, I'd recommend installing QuickTime Alternative [1] (plus
> Media Player Classic [2]), instead of the "real" QuickTime - but that's
> not a very flattering thing to recommend as far as the "real" QuickTime
> is concerned, is it? And while were at it, there's also a similar
> helpful framework for Real Media files: Real Alternative [3].
Don't be a cheap skate just buy QT Pro and our experience will improve
dramatically. QT Pro is well worth the peanuts it costs to upgrade.
What is flattering is the steps M$ has gone to plagiarise the look of QT
Player in Vista.
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> Yet another great tool for overcoming the brainfarts of web designers
> and media player developers alike is the MediaPlayerConnectivity
> extension for Firefox [4], which allows playing back silly "embedded"
> web video in regular, non-embedded players (yes, in full-screen mode,
> too) and figuring out the actual URLs of the streams, which the web
> "designers" so often try to hide in their convoluted-but-futile
> JavaScript-based obfuscation attempts.
>
Those web developers are clearly less brainfarted than those fools that
want to watch full screen video that was originally encoded for a small
embedded window. You must be a measurebator that likes to observe
compression artifacts up close and personal.
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