This file worked on my Mac mini with Panther and VLC 0.8.1, but crashed my iBook G4 with Tiger and the same version of VLC. Upgrading to the latest release of VLC (from deestar's link above) on the iBook did the trick.
QT 7 still gives me an error, though.
*shakes fist* damn apple! screw you for adhering so rigorously to h.264 standards!!
this analagy may be in bad taste, but really, sometimes i think VLC is like the town bike whereas quicktime is the $10,000/night celebrity hooker
edited my first post on this thread to have just 1 8mb 'no b-frames' h.264 clip. should play in VLC and Mplayer fine now, but not in Quicktime 7 from what i hear
when i get my hands on "export to h.264" from Quicktime7 Pro, then we'll try again
*shakes fist* damn apple! screw you for adhering so rigorously to h.264 standards!!
this analagy may be in bad taste, but really, sometimes i think VLC is like the town bike whereas quicktime is the $10,000/night celebrity hooker
And to think, some people on this thread have trouble with the car analogies - like vlc==pinto, QT==Lexus...wonder what they will say about yours...
One question: In your example would Paris hilton be the celeb hooker or the STD ridden cheap local bimbo...or does that throw your whole analogy into a talespin?
And to think, some people on this thread have trouble with the car analogies - like vlc==pinto, QT==Lexus...wonder what they will say about yours...
One question: In your example would Paris hilton be the celeb hooker or the STD ridden cheap local bimbo...or does that throw your whole analogy into a talespin?
my analogy holds Paris Hilton is the std ridden cheap local bimbo
It works well in VLC but I think you have to encode a "better" trailer. I mean a trailer without so much blackouts, so that we can really take an idea about the image quality.
or you guys could just go to the quicktime movie trailer page and check out all the h.264 trailers they've released....i've been having fun with them all day!
What's the trick for saving those files at Apple's site? Is it possible?
Open the movie and press command+i (or window -> show movie info). Then look at the source and copy that link. Now here's the interesting trick. Go to Google and paste the link into the search box and hit search. One of the lines that comes up is: "If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: images.apple.c......720p.mov", control-click (or right click) that and "download linked file".
Hope that helps. I'm surprised they allowed the source to be shown tbh.
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Originally posted by geekdreams
This file worked on my Mac mini with Panther and VLC 0.8.1, but crashed my iBook G4 with Tiger and the same version of VLC. Upgrading to the latest release of VLC (from deestar's link above) on the iBook did the trick.
QT 7 still gives me an error, though.
*shakes fist* damn apple! screw you for adhering so rigorously to h.264 standards!!
this analagy may be in bad taste, but really, sometimes i think VLC is like the town bike whereas quicktime is the $10,000/night celebrity hooker
when i get my hands on "export to h.264" from Quicktime7 Pro, then we'll try again
Originally posted by sunilraman
*shakes fist* damn apple! screw you for adhering so rigorously to h.264 standards!!
this analagy may be in bad taste, but really, sometimes i think VLC is like the town bike whereas quicktime is the $10,000/night celebrity hooker
And to think, some people on this thread have trouble with the car analogies - like vlc==pinto, QT==Lexus...wonder what they will say about yours...
One question: In your example would Paris hilton be the celeb hooker or the STD ridden cheap local bimbo...or does that throw your whole analogy into a talespin?
Originally posted by a_greer
And to think, some people on this thread have trouble with the car analogies - like vlc==pinto, QT==Lexus...wonder what they will say about yours...
One question: In your example would Paris hilton be the celeb hooker or the STD ridden cheap local bimbo...or does that throw your whole analogy into a talespin?
my analogy holds
Originally posted by sunilraman
Matrix Reloaded trailer: (8mb h.264 encoded from ffmpegx, 1pass, no B-frames)
http://www.phatcraft.com/matrix_relo...small_h264.avi
(right-click and save-as/download)
It works well in VLC but I think you have to encode a "better" trailer. I mean a trailer without so much blackouts, so that we can really take an idea about the image quality.
Originally posted by mikef
What's the trick for saving those files at Apple's site? Is it possible?
you need quicktime 7 pro... although i have seen freeware/shareware that can do that...
Originally posted by mikef
What's the trick for saving those files at Apple's site? Is it possible?
you need quicktime 7 pro... or otherwise some freeware and shareware... cant remember where to get those
Originally posted by mikef
What's the trick for saving those files at Apple's site? Is it possible?
Open the movie and press command+i (or window -> show movie info). Then look at the source and copy that link. Now here's the interesting trick. Go to Google and paste the link into the search box and hit search. One of the lines that comes up is: "If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: images.apple.c......720p.mov", control-click (or right click) that and "download linked file".
Hope that helps. I'm surprised they allowed the source to be shown tbh.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/
Pretty damn impressive quality.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/