why is apple going all "microsoft" on me!?!?!

the-guy-who-loves-mac-stuffthe-guy-who-loves-mac-stuff
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in macOS edited January 2014
ok... all I want to do is watch movies in quicktime at full screen. but it says i need quicktime pro to watch movies in full screen. why don't all new computers come with quicktime pro installed on them? there is no way im going to pay $30 just to watch some media in full screen. is there any way around this? or do I just have to switch media players?

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  • Reply 1 of 11
    wrong robotwrong robot Posts: 3,907member
    use VLC



    or maybe this or this
  • Reply 2 of 11
    the-guy-who-loves-mac-stuffthe-guy-who-loves-mac-stuff Posts: 13member
    thank you!!! I tried VLC... and it seems to skip a lot more then I like so...



    but that other link is great!
  • Reply 3 of 11
    wrong robotwrong robot Posts: 3,907member
    VLC (and mplayer) are still very useful to have. They can play most any weird .avi that comes from windows.
  • Reply 4 of 11
    pbpb Posts: 4,255member
    There is also Cellulo. It is a great application.
  • Reply 5 of 11
    tommy_thompsontommy_thompson Posts: 224member
    Trying Cellulo for work as we speak. Have QT Pro at home, and didn't really think about paying for it. Sure, it'd been nice not to pay for QT Pro...
  • Reply 6 of 11
    mmmpiemmmpie Posts: 628member
    Quicktime will quite happily let you play full screen without paying for Pro. Its just the _player_ application that wont. You can download any of the free quicktime players, try looking on macupdate, and they will play fullscreen.



    Cellulo is nice, if need of a bit of a graphic overhaul.



    You'll probably also want to install the various divx codecs ( divx.com, 3ivx.com ) so that you can play most divx movies with quicktime. Typically divx movies are in avi files. The 3ivx codec fixes they audio sync issue that QT has with divx movies.
  • Reply 7 of 11
    relicrelic Posts: 4,735member
    SSSSSHHHHHH, go here



    [MOD EDIT: Link "cleansed" - Jambo]
  • Reply 8 of 11
    vox barbaravox barbara Posts: 2,021member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by mmmpie

    Quicktime will quite happily let you play full screen without paying for Pro. Its just the _player_ application that wont. ...





    Thank you for pointing that out. It is embarrassing, isn't it? It is a blow indeed.
  • Reply 9 of 11
    low-filow-fi Posts: 357member
    Here
  • Reply 10 of 11
    boubabouba Posts: 33member 
    Code:


    (*

    Full-screener! by Mikey-San.

    http://www.mikey-san.net/

    If you make changes, add a comment below and keep the ones above!

    *)



    on open theMovie

    tell application "QuickTime Player"

    activate

    set request to display dialog "Select a scaling, fool!" with icon ¬

    note buttons {"normal", "double", "screen"} default button "screen"

    if button returned of request is "normal" then

    open theMovie

    present movie 1 scale normal

    else if button returned of request is "double" then

    open theMovie

    present movie 1 scale double

    else if button returned of request is "screen" then

    open theMovie

    present movie 1 scale screen

    end if

    end tell

    end open











    Here you go. This is all good to have a quicktime movie in full screen! Just copy and paste it in AppleScript, save it as an application and drop the desired movie on it. All you have to do, is select the desired size!
  • Reply 11 of 11
    rara Posts: 623member
    Even easier:

    Code:


    tell application "QuickTime Player"

    activate

    present movie 1

    end tell



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