In article <2012021814104884492-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
> >> There is a big difference between QuickTime Player and QuickTime 7 Pro.
> >> For starters QT Player is just that, a player for most audio files and
> >> many video formats, but QT Player has always been problematic when it
> >> came to some specific codecs, especially when it came to some avi
> >> variants. It is not a video editor.
> >
> > quick time player does a *lot* more than just play. it can do basic
> > editing, record new movies, as well as tweaks such as rotate, adjust
> > colour, frame rate, etc.
>
> Basic editing with QT Player?
> It can certainly record a basic movie as a .mov, and it can record
> screen actions as a .mov. It can record audio, also as a .mov, but with
> regard to editing it will only permit trimming. For more advanced edits
> upgrade to QT Pro, or use iMovie.
you can also cut/copy/paste selections. it's not as good as a dedicated
video editing app, but for simple stuff it works.
> >> Personally on my Macs I use iMovie for editing any videos I shoot with
> >> either my Canon G11, Nikon D300s, or iPhone all without any major
> >> hassle. For viewing problematic video file with oddball codecs I use
> >> VLC there doesn't seem to be any compatibility between VLC and its
> >> Swiss Army Knife utility and QT's inability to handle tricky file
> >> formats. I can view .avi files which QT chokes on, with VLC.
> >
> > quicktime does not choke on avi files unless they are corrupted somehow.
>
> As you have noted avi's are containers and there is no true avi
> standard. I have experienced avi's which choke QT and are only playable
> on VLC.
there is an avi standard, but unfortunately, a lot of files are not
compliant with it, typically from buggy windows apps.
avi movies that do not play properly in quicktime with the appropriate
codec are almost always corrupt. quicktime won't play corrupted movies.
nothing should play them because they are invalid avi files, but buggy
software apparently doesn't care, which is not too surprising since
it's the same buggy crap that wrote the bogus files in the first place.
nevertheless, vlc does a good job of guessing what the data should be,
which is certainly nice but the file is still corrupt.
> > in the case of wmv, the codec to write wmv is not free (only playing is
> > free), but blame microsoft for that, since wmv is not cheap to license.
>
> Agreed, and that led to the workaround for playing WMV/WMA on QT with
> "Flip4Mac" when MS dropped the WM player for Mac.
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...a-player/wmcom
> ponents
no workaround needed. microsoft dropped support for their player (which
was not very good) and decided to sponsor telestream's version, which
was *much* better. it has the blessing and backing of microsoft and
will properly support windows media files. as i said, the player part
is free, which is all anyone needs because people should not create
proprietary formats.
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http://www.telestream.net/update-che...yer.htm?icid=o
verview-f4m-update>
> >> QT does not have access to the entire array of video format codecs. It
> >> has always been a longstanding issue with Macs and QT. It is one reason
> >> I use VLC on my Macs.
> >
> > quicktime has access to *any* codec anyone wants to write and all of
> > the popular formats exist (e.g., divx). if a codec for a particular
> > format doesn't exist, then it's because there's little demand for it or
> > the format is proprietary (or both).
>
> True, but sometimes the search for some of the divx and avi codec
> variants, and there are some, is a PIA.
see above for wmv and <http://www.divx.com/en/software/mac> for divx.
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