Argh, why do people use Quicktime??

[Ns1]

i'm watching paintball video's too, in quicktime, and they look pretty good for their filesize

 

[GTaudiophile]

QT rox0rs! The program interface is polished and beats anything else out there (WMP, RAone). Video and sound quality is top notch too!

 

[ATLien247]

Originally posted by: BillGates
I'm trying to watch paintball movies at work and am getting screwed because I don't have admin rights on my machine, which means I can't install the stupid software to watch them...

Any ideas on other players or plugins that will allow me to view these movies?

Any ideas on why people would want to dodge convention and use quicktime to make their movies?

I think you're understating the fact that you don't have Administrator rights to your workstation. There's probably a good reason why "they" don't want you to install things... especially QT! 😛

 

[inataysia]

Originally posted by: Buddha Bart
what a phenominal number of uninformed zealots... amazing.Divx, ogg? You're the kind of people that think all servers should run linux and be built whitebox machines.bart

and you're the kind of person who puts anybody who fits his stereotype of a 'fringe linux wacko' into a dissmiss-and-forget pigeonhole.

QT is a suite of codecs, for still images, virtual reality, panoramas, movies, and more. DivX is a movie codec. the windows QT player blows goats. i haven't found one for linux that performs adequately. however, there are a number of DivX players for linux, windows, macos, *bsd, and the *dreamcast*, among others. QT movies, if done right (read: have huge filesizes), look almost indistinguishable from relatively low-filesize DivX movies. at lower bitrates, QT loses. Real Player is right out!

ogg. . . i have yet to see anybody give a cogent argument against the use or proliferation of ogg Vorbis. compared to mp3, it gives superior quality and compression at lower bitrates, and at least equal quality at normal/higher bitrates. it Just Works in popular players (winamp, xmms). if it makes it into hardware players (iPod, nomad, rio, etc), then i see a bright future for it. .... WMA is right out!

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: ATLien247

Originally posted by: BillGates
I'm trying to watch paintball movies at work and am getting screwed because I don't have admin rights on my machine, which means I can't install the stupid software to watch them...

Any ideas on other players or plugins that will allow me to view these movies?

Any ideas on why people would want to dodge convention and use quicktime to make their movies?

I think you're understating the fact that you don't have Administrator rights to your workstation. There's probably a good reason why "they" don't want you to install things... especially QT! 😛

Heh, yeah, I guess maybe I shouldn't have been crying about Quicktime because the only reason I couldn't watch my stupid movies was because of the lack of admin rights. I don't know when or why I even lost them either - I always had them before. Oh well, I'm at home now and can watch anything.

(Quite the discussion though, and lots of conflicting opinions. I'm personally a fan of the DivX codec though.) (Yes, it is obscure just like Real and QT and won't play without specific codecs, but beyond that you're just using standard .avi files)