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# Friday, June 11, 2004

QuickTime support in windows without the player

Want to use Windows Media Player to watch QuickTime movies without the Apple player (which I find has a poor user interface, and non standard windows controls)?

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm

The best part is that it includes a DirectShow filter. This means that any application on Windows that supports DirectShow (Windows Media Player, Media Center) can just play .mov files. Sweet!

 

Friday, June 11, 2004 6:13:23 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
"Poor interface"? :"Non standard windows controls"? Omar, Omar, Omar. That may get you brownie points with Bill, but let's be realistic. The interface in WMP is atrocious. It's crowded, unintuitive and breaks many interface guidelines. It's only saving grace is that it is skinnable, but that brings a whole bunch of other issues with it.

But keep using those Quicktime codecs - QT is right behind WMP in market share!
Theodore Lee
Friday, June 11, 2004 9:49:29 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Dude. talk about a poor interface, media player? Well, it's not as bad as real, but that's totally cool on those codecs.
Saturday, June 12, 2004 9:31:49 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Umm, Omar's right. Apple is violating some of it's own principles by not using UI that has the look/feel of the native OS. They used to complain when some ports of Windows apps had things that looked out of place. The QuickTime player looks like ass on WinXP. I can't say I like WMP, but Apple should know better.
Sunday, June 13, 2004 3:43:36 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Are you promoting legal software ?
Steve
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