Quicktime Alternative

Post by **BlueGene** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:08 pm

I just did a format, and I'm trying to figure out if Quicktime Alternative is worth installing. At some point I started having issues playing Quicktime trailers, did apple do something with quicktime movies or did my system mess up? Is anyone else able to watch quicktime trailers with Quicktime Alternative?

Thanks.

Post by **plained** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:10 pm

my guess is they will change it once a week to keep it proprietary

Post by **BlueGene** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:17 pm

Nevermind just installed it again and it works fine, my system must of messed up before.

Post by **Bdw3** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 10:37 pm

Keep it up to date and you should be golden.

They're usually pretty quick about getting it up date when apple upgrades QT.

Post by **Geebs** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 10:57 pm

Given that quicktime is free, what's the fucking point? Oh, yeah, it's "bloat", i'd forgotten.

Post by **4days** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:49 pm

Geebs wrote:Given that quicktime is free, what's the fucking point? Oh, yeah, it's "bloat", i'd forgotten.

on a windows box, it has a silly ui, a pop-up and it tries to keep a process running all the time.

you can disable it easily enough - but it's easier to use the alternative that just does what you want it to do when you want it to it without any fucking about.

Post by **dzjepp** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:51 pm

I install it so I can watch .mov clips with media player classic, afaik you can't do the same with the official qt install.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:32 am

dzjepp wrote:I install it so I can watch .mov clips with media player classic, afaik you can't do the same with the official qt install.

indeed, which you can then use to pause and take quick screengrabs from.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:09 am

Geebs wrote:Given that quicktime is free, what's the fucking point? Oh, yeah, it's "bloat", i'd forgotten.

calm down

Post by **mjrpes** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:26 am

Geebs wrote:Given that quicktime is free, what's the fucking point? Oh, yeah, it's "bloat", i'd forgotten.

You can't do fullscreen in the free version.

Post by **Kills On Site** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:37 pm

mjrpes wrote:
Geebs wrote:Given that quicktime is free, what's the fucking point? Oh, yeah, it's "bloat", i'd forgotten.
You can't do fullscreen in the free version.

That is the reason I don't like quicktime, no fullscreen. I just use media player classic if there is something I wish to watch in fullscreen.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:50 pm

in the old days you could press apple-m and itd be fullscreen. that was when quicktime was only updates when needed, not so that their name stays in the market

QT 2.5 was bliss

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:41 pm

Kills On Site wrote:
mjrpes wrote:
Geebs wrote:Given that quicktime is free, what's the fucking point? Oh, yeah, it's "bloat", i'd forgotten.
You can't do fullscreen in the free version.
That is the reason I don't like quicktime, no fullscreen. I just use media player classic if there is something I wish to watch in fullscreen.

erm...

Post by **Geebs** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:04 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
Geebs wrote:Given that quicktime is free, what's the fucking point? Oh, yeah, it's "bloat", i'd forgotten.
calm down

Nah man, it was a friendly fuck

Post by **bitWISE** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:14 pm

What I really hate is when QT gets ahold of all the file associations.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:15 pm

and with QTA you can install itunes without installing normal QT.. assuming you like Itunes