I bought the Pro licence once and at the next major upgrade it turned out I had to pay the Pro upgrade again... Once bitten...
Seriously, I purchased QT Pro about 4 times in the past 8 years! (and I complained on a mac specific message board somewhere on the Internet each and every time!)
And the other 99% of his articles are complete crap that you'd think were written by Apple's PR department.
I have to agree with Jim. If AppleInsider is just going to be a front for RD crap, they should just merge the websites and be done with it. At the very least, hyperlinks going to RD should be identified as doing so in the article. And maybe Dilger could just use his real name instead of hiding behind an alias.
Relax, Caliminius. It's not the end of the world!
Dilger does try to be factual rather than emotional like you.
Isn't Perian enough? With Perian installed, it's pretty rare that QuickTime can't handle a video that I throw at it, though I don't download pirated videos, those tend to involve fad codecs anyway, the popular codec choice of pirates seems to change every few months.
I don't understand why you think this. I haven't seen where QT Pro causes a single bit of problems for VLC. I've not heard of Miro though. The only "problem" I can think of is that users won't need to run VLC very often, and given VLC's occasional crashes and goofy scrubber behavior, I don't see using VLC less is a problem.
I have every player I can find on my machine, including QT Pro. I have no problems with any of them except for the problems that are known anyway.
One problem I've always had with Player from Apple is that I can't do video adjustments to any MPEG files, but I can on everything else that will play. I've always thought that was odd.
The other thing is that Apple should include a gamma adjustment as VLC has. Along with brightness and contrast, that enables videos to be much better. Of course, I'd also love to see a black level and a white level adjustment. RGB gammas, and, and, and...
I bought the Pro licence once and at the next major upgrade it turned out I had to pay the Pro upgrade again... Once bitten...
In a similar fashion, one of my payments to Apple for QT Pro license was followed in about one month with Apple issuing a new version release, instantly obsoleting my $30 payment to them. I was not happy (even tried customer service... )
So I hope they finally come around to making the whole range of so-called pro features part of the free QuickTime distribution.
Apple has reasons NOT to support PPC 64. Pushing its customers to buy new hardware is NOT one of them. Based on the publicly available information, I can see 2 reasons:
Apple is moving to a new compiler, which does not support PPC 64 - PPC 32 and Intel 32/64 only.
Apple is introducing 64 bit kernel. I am not a kernel expert but I am pretty sure that an optimized kernel for another platform is not just a recompile, the point above notwithstanding.
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I bought the Pro licence once and at the next major upgrade it turned out I had to pay the Pro upgrade again... Once bitten...
Seriously, I purchased QT Pro about 4 times in the past 8 years! (and I complained on a mac specific message board somewhere on the Internet each and every time!)
And the other 99% of his articles are complete crap that you'd think were written by Apple's PR department.
I have to agree with Jim. If AppleInsider is just going to be a front for RD crap, they should just merge the websites and be done with it. At the very least, hyperlinks going to RD should be identified as doing so in the article. And maybe Dilger could just use his real name instead of hiding behind an alias.
Relax, Caliminius. It's not the end of the world!
Dilger does try to be factual rather than emotional like you.
Again. Relax.
Isn't Perian enough? With Perian installed, it's pretty rare that QuickTime can't handle a video that I throw at it, though I don't download pirated videos, those tend to involve fad codecs anyway, the popular codec choice of pirates seems to change every few months.
I don't understand why you think this. I haven't seen where QT Pro causes a single bit of problems for VLC. I've not heard of Miro though. The only "problem" I can think of is that users won't need to run VLC very often, and given VLC's occasional crashes and goofy scrubber behavior, I don't see using VLC less is a problem.
I have every player I can find on my machine, including QT Pro. I have no problems with any of them except for the problems that are known anyway.
One problem I've always had with Player from Apple is that I can't do video adjustments to any MPEG files, but I can on everything else that will play. I've always thought that was odd.
The other thing is that Apple should include a gamma adjustment as VLC has. Along with brightness and contrast, that enables videos to be much better. Of course, I'd also love to see a black level and a white level adjustment. RGB gammas, and, and, and...
Dilger does try to be factual rather than emotional like you.
Ahahahahahahahahahahaha -- pauses to wipe away tear -- hahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Priceless.
Cheers
Jim
I bought the Pro licence once and at the next major upgrade it turned out I had to pay the Pro upgrade again... Once bitten...
In a similar fashion, one of my payments to Apple for QT Pro license was followed in about one month with Apple issuing a new version release, instantly obsoleting my $30 payment to them. I was not happy (even tried customer service... )
So I hope they finally come around to making the whole range of so-called pro features part of the free QuickTime distribution.