Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Mar 2009 21:00 UTC
This weekend, we learned that Apple's upcoming Snow Leopard operating system would have a minimal user interface for the QuickTime movie player. Thanks to AppleInsider, we now have more information on the new interface, and it seems like Apple is again - just as with the Safari 4 beta - using some radical interface ideas.
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... Rocky Mountain.
The current QT UI uses the sliders in the player progress bar for marking in and out points for trimming, cut and paste, etc. It has drop downs for alternate tracks and chapters too. This UI mockup doesn't reflect those things (which are necessary).
Also I don't get why people bash the QT player. It's a resource hog on Windows, perhaps, but it is a port form another environment and there's a whole abstraction layer for the APIs to add to deal with the non-native environment (and lots of static linkage). That's to be expected.
QuickTime, the container format, not the player, really is the best thing out there. It's well-documented, has very good support for multiple tracks, embedded alternate bitrate streams, sprite and close-captioning tracks, non-linear flow, etc. It's really very elegant.