Piece of shit quicktime

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I'm watching some YTMNDs, and the sound won't play on some because apparently Firefox needs a "Quicktime" plugin which, of course, can't be installed automatically. The problem persists despite installing quicktime manually. Stupid piece of shit Apple. What's this?
 
The Overseer said:
I'm watching some YTMNDs, and the sound won't play on some because apparently Firefox needs a "Quicktime" plugin which, of course, can't be installed automatically. The problem persists despite installing quicktime manually. Stupid piece of shit Apple. What's this?
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I've found over my many years of computing that Quick Time and Real Player are the WORST media players on the face of this earth! A no nonsense tank of a media player to get is VLC Media Player. That sucker plays everything. About the only thing it lacks is a better UGI.
 
ussually just installing the latest quicktime will also install the active x or what the hell the broswer needs to display embedded quicktime objects... you might want to check your firefox settings that might block quicktime embedded objects for some absurd reason (easy check if you have allready installed quicktime try to view the page under .. GASP .. Internet Explorer :P )

also i have found that some codec packs (ace and sometimes klite) that were installed after quicktime (esp latest version) mess up the embedded videos since they come with their own quicktime alternative

i dont care much for quicktime but it is a better option for embedding video in a website then windows media or realplayer .. still flash seems more versatile.
 
The more recent versions of Quicktime are fairly light and can be tweaked effectively using basic options.


Realplayer is hell though, it will kill your computer dead.

just get Quicktime and go through all the options one at a time to make it work how you want it, run the msconfig to remove it from startup, manually remove it from the system tray, and other such things.

I also use VLC player, its terribly effective, but it doesn't support .flv very well yet, and it cant run embedded streaming .mov files, which Quicktime actually does very well and gives fairly good quality.

My media suite involves VLC player, X codec pack, Quicktime stripped down to submission, and Riva flv player (for those downloaded youtube vids and other .flv files), the various Firefox plugins and the DivX web player.

I strongly suggest getting all of those things.


Also, VLC player is skinnable, so any complaints about the GUI are simply for lack of innovation on ones own part.
 
Quick time is such malware ...

It slows down your PC and there is no option to stop it start up on start up except to uninstall the bastard.

I'm not having that POS on my PC.
 
Quicktime is certainly not "malware," whatever you think of it. It doesn't slow down your computer, as the only part that'll run in the background is the little taskbar menu. You can in fact turn that off, either through Quicktime's options, or through the Services applet or even msconfig. Dark is right, you just have to go through the options and trim it down to size.

I rather like Quicktime. Better quality than WMP, and I've never had any problems with it. 'Course, I do hate the whole paying for "Pro" functionality, but there are "ways" around that...
 
Kyuu said:
Quicktime is certainly not "malware," whatever you think of it. It doesn't slow down your computer, as the only part that'll run in the background is the little taskbar menu. You can in fact turn that off, either through Quicktime's options, or through the Services applet or even msconfig. Dark is right, you just have to go through the options and trim it down to size.

I rather like Quicktime. Better quality than WMP, and I've never had any problems with it. 'Course, I do hate the whole paying for "Pro" functionality, but there are "ways" around that...
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Hotel California said:
Quick time is such malware ...

It slows down your PC and there is no option to stop it start up on start up except to uninstall the bastard.

I'm not having that POS on my PC.
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It's only 'malware-ish' if you don't know shit about your pc.
Anyone with a a competent understanding of windows services should have no problem making it work very well.

Aside from the obvious default options, it is actually a very competent program, especially for streaming video.

Like I said, go into Run > msconfig, and deisable it from startup.
problem solved.
Seriously though, peoples own arrogant anti-program hate without even understanding applications boggles my mind.
Who needs logic when you have fanatical disdain for software codes?
 
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