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Quicktime is worse than slow--its not even standards compliant, and most ordinary H.264 video will not play back on it properly (and that subset seems to change
by DarkShikari 18y ago
Quicktime is worse than slow--its not even standards compliant, and most ordinary H.264 video will not play back on it properly (and that subset seems to change on every release).
From an actually-working standpoint, its even worse. I had to install Quicktime a while back on Windows to convert some weird-format Quicktime YUV files to something usable--it instacrashed upon trying to convert it. After reinstalling a few times it worked, but it took over 2 hours to start the conversion. This was a conversion from raw YUV to raw BMP. Oh, and then it took about 2 days to do the conversion for a single film. Seriously, folks.
I've constantly heard its much better under OS X; but at least my experience on Windows says its not merely bad, but the single worst media player I have ever used (yes, worse than Real.)
- electromagnetic 18y agoMy brother switched to Mac a while ago, and pretty much the first thing he commented on as the major difference was that he could actually use quicktime.
- unalone 18y agoI'm on a Mac right now, and this is absolutely correct. QuickTime handles nearly everything once you have Perian installed. It means that suddenly you have a capable mini-player for watching nearly anything. And it's very smooth, too: it has a bunch of nifty little features that I'm sure the Windows version doesn't have.