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Personally, I'm happy to forget anything that has quicktime in the name...

• azinman2 10y ago
  Why? QuickTime is one of the best media stacks out there.
  • dingo_bat 10y ago
    Is that true? I've always associated Quicktime with lag and bugs. Also, one of the rare instances of non-driver software causing BSODs, which is quite a mean feat.
    • micheljansen 10y ago
      On Windows it's always been terrible. The Mac frameworks are pretty solid.
      • azinman2 10y ago
        Guessing you never directly programmed such frameworks. Back in the day, writing multimedia for Windows was a nightmare... especially if you wanted to do things like play multiple videos in sync with a common master clock. QuickTime was the only way to do it reasonably.
        • micheljansen 10y ago
          Nope, I thankfully never had to do this for Windows, but I can imagine your pain!
    • shiggerino 10y ago
      I can't even remember ever being able to seek in a Windows Media file without breaking the entire playback. Never had any problems like that with QuickTime.
      • dingo_bat 10y ago
        >I can't even remember ever being able to seek in a Windows Media file without breaking the entire playback. What's that got to do with Quicktime?
        • modfodder 10y ago
          I believe he is implying that Quicktime was the only app/codec/container that allowed the user to stop, rewind, fast forward, jump around in the clip without the app completely failing. As a video editor for the past 26 years, that has been my experience. Every other video playback app/container that I've used (on both Windows and Mac) failed at treating a clip in a non-linear manner. My current preference is still for Quicktime 7, the utility knife for video playback (even more so than VLC in my experience).
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      • WayneBro 10y ago
        No, QuickTime only has problems opening, exporting, crashing and doing other things - https://www.google.com/search?q=quicktime+crash+error+site%3Adiscussions.apple.com https://www.google.com/search?q=quicktime+crash+error+site%3...
    • ino 10y ago
      On PC I've always associated it with not being able to full screen a video and bad play/pause/rewind/FF controls.
    • ascorbic 10y ago
      The player was crappy, but the actual framework was great. I believe the file format formed the basis of MPEG4.
      • blktiger 10y ago
        Looks like it was. https://developer.apple.com/standards/classicquicktime.html https://developer.apple.com/standards/classicquicktime.html
  • bbrik 10y ago
    Quicktime still is the standard in professional video. Everybody uses QuickTime and Apple prores codecs.
  • agumonkey 10y ago
    As many, from the average 90s Windows user, QT was just an awkward penguin plugin. It "felt" outdated even in these days.
  • WayneBro 10y ago
    For programmers or for users? As a user - the QuickTime UX sucked like most other Apple software and I'm glad that nobody uses it anymore for things that I need to look at.
• nasduia 10y ago
  All I remember is the spammy nag screens every time it was updated: "Why not buy Quicktime Pro?" and Apple's hideous brushed steel UI which often didn't quiet render correctly.
• abruzzi 10y ago
  isn't the MPEG4 container based on the Quicktime container?
  • joezydeco 10y ago
    Pretty much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14