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The only platform I have that Quicktime has been ported to is Windows XP, and my experience with Windows-based Quicktime is that it's very slow, a memory-hog, too buggy, full of advertisements for other Apple products (I hear it's got much worse after iTunes and the iProduct revolution), and I don't get the same quality as with other file formats the same size. One of the last crashes I had with Windows was the boot after I installed Quicktime; I uninstalled it in Safe Mode, and my computer booted again.
I'm told it's none of these things on a Mac. Too bad my only Mac is a SE/30...
Any recent ffmpeg-based player (last year or so, IIRC) will play just about any QuickTime file you throw at it. If you're on Windows, try FFDShow and Media Player Classic.
http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package...







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2007-01-30
I know this is slightly off yopic (and I would like to know what is LLVM as well) but, since when is QuickTime an obscure format?