How to play quicktime MOV on ppc?

Imidazole · 11-06-04, 04:24 PM

What app supports qt?

Imidazole · 11-07-04, 01:12 AM

???????????

GREENEGUY · 11-07-04, 03:42 AM

have you tryed beta player?

11-07-04, 04:02 AM

Or PQV for digicam-authored MOV and AVI files, or PictPocketCinema for many compressed QuickTime files...

Imidazole · 11-07-04, 03:18 PM

i cant find any plugins for betaplayer that do qt :( and none of those other programs are free.

11-07-04, 03:48 PM

Nope. And that's just one of the several good reasons to avoid the QuickTime formats for audio and video. Same deal with Real nonsense. Locked, proprietary media formats like these and WMV, ASF, or whatever, are inflexible and therefore have a limited usefulness. I doubt they'll survive, in the longer term. More open formats like AVI, MPEG, things which can be re-encoded to other scales or formats using open source free conversion softwares are the best way to go. Anything I really value in video I save in MPG, as I feel fairly confident that players will be available for a long time on any platform. That's a bit of a sweeping generalisation, but you get the idea?

Apparently the fully registered QuickTime Pro allows conversion to MPEG or AVI. But there again there is a price to be paid. I've tried searching for free encoders to get stuff out of MOV files, but regardless of several downloaded freewares and lots of hours of reading tutorials, I've never once had a second of video come out the other side. Seems one must become a tech genius to figure out how to use these things.