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Quicktime on Mac OS remains a shitshow to this day. I still have not figured out how to use third party srt files for subtitles.
by Kluny 11y ago
Quicktime on Mac OS remains a shitshow to this day. I still have not figured out how to use third party srt files for subtitles.
- Keyframe 11y agoYou can use VLC on OSX as well. It works great!
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- kapuetri 11y agoWhen watching h.264 VLC consumes lots of CPU when QuickTime doesn't. I don't know why.
- astrosi 11y agoI assume that it is because QuickTime is using your GPU to decode the h.264 but VLC isn't. There is support for hardware accelerated h.264 decoding in VLC; you just need to enable it. I think the option is in Input and Codecs tab in the preferences.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoMaybe QuickTime knows how to leverage hardware decoding?
- cooper12 11y agoYou might have hardware acceleration in the Input/Codecs menu disabled.
- jbk 11y agoTry VLC 3.0.0 nightly builds using VideoToolbox or activate GPU decoding.
- booruguru 11y agoI think the srt file needs to have the same name as the main video file and they both need to be in the same folder.
- toomanybeersies 11y agoQuicktime gives me a bunch of weird green artifacts in empty spaces with h.264 encoded video. Seems to struggle with sync as well.
- moonshinefe 11y agoHoly shit, people still use Quicktime? Apologies for my OS X / iOS ignorance, but I haven't seen that in years on Windows / Linux.
- ryanlol 11y agoI've been using OS X on my macbooks for like 2 years now, until now I had no idea it even existed anymore.
- Kluny 11y agoIt still comes bundled with Mac OS, of course, and receives regular updates from Apple. Every once in a while, usually after finally agreeing to an update that I've been putting off for years, I give it a try to see if it works yet. I am always disappointed.
- AndrewUnmuted 11y agoThat's the least of QT's problems. The idiotic way that modern QuickTime container files handle audio-visual sync has caused the entire format to fall out of favor within the professional video industry. The video and audio streams within such files are, by design, out of sync, and requires playback within QuickTime to actually get the file to play back properly, as the content creator intended. Workarounds exist, and some playback software can handle the problem internally, but VLC in particular is not always able to.