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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2008-07-15
I agree here. It's actually rather amazing, how much the Windows version sucks and how nice the Mac version of qt is, it's just like iTunes: I really like the Mac version, while I find the Windows version to be horribly slow and bloated.
I've yet to see a lot of support for common and modern file types in qt though, especially where open source file formats and containers are concerned: no ogg, flac, matroska, speex, etc. And then there's the lack of support for other common codecs (DivX and the like). All of these can be fixed with plugins, but honestly, they can and should do better with codec and format support. At the very least, include the open source formats, it's not like it would hurt them to do so especially seeing as how there are already plugins that prove it's easily possible. As much as I like the Mac version of Quicktime, supported codecs and file formats is not one of its strong points.