Posted by Jukka Aho on 09/22/06 18:38

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.

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.

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].

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.

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[1] <http://google.com/search?q=quicktime+alternative>
[2] <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303>
[3] <http://google.com/search?q=real+alternative>
[4] <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/446/>

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