Posted by sbt on 10/18/05 22:35

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.

--
Spenser

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