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Apple releases Quicktime 7 for Mac OS X 10.3.9
For those of you who "have to wait until Christmas to get Tiger," you can get a little taste of what you're missing by running Software Update right now and downloading Quicktime 7. Or grab it directly from Apple's website. Quicktime 7 Pro keys are $29.99 and as you'd expect, previous Quicktime Pro keys will not work to upgrade Quicktime 7. Windows users need to stick with QuickTime 6 Pro. QuickTime 7 Pro for Windows is coming soon.QT 7 has H.264 video compression, amazing responsive live player resize, up to 24-channels of sound and all new playback controls. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
Just in case you hate QT 7 or it does something strange to your Mac, you can revert to Quicktime 6.52 by using the Quicktime 6.5.2 reinstaller that Apple has thoughtfully provided.
"The QuickTime 6.5.2 reinstaller will remove QuickTime 7 from a Mac OS X 10.3.9 system and restore QuickTime 6.5.2. Note: This reinstaller will only run on Mac OS X 10.3.9. "
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
holophile said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
The free version does not offer full-screen support as previously reported. When you try to enable it, it pops up a message stating, "Full Screen plays your movie scaled to fit the entire screen, with an easy-to-use controller that fades away once playback begins.
Get QuickTime 7 Pro today to enable this and dozens of other great features."
It does allow you to open multiple winodws at the same time like the previous version.
Looks like I'm upgrading to QT Pro..... who am I kidding, I was gonna do that anyway.
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Tom said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Does anyone find it strange that for all the touting of H.264 HD and all that, there is not a single HD sample video available. When Microsoft released their HD WMV component (last year, btw) they had a ton of sample HD videos available on their site from day one. What is Apple afraid of. Does their new codec require a monster machine to play HD and all of us who are on measly G4s are out of luck? I couldn't even find one through a google search. What gives?
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John Man said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/
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Tom said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Thanks John! You're the Man (sorry)! But where did you find that link. I can't find it anywhere in the quicktime site.
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Paul said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Looks like it does need a G5 if you read the requirements on the link...
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John Man said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
www.apple.com
Click "QuickTime"
Click "QuickTime HD Gallery" in the top right
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Geoffrey said 2:25AM on 8-01-2005
Sorry in advance about the long post....I use a G3 266MHz that I brought back from the dead and upgraded. I'm currently running OS 9.2.2. It runs everything great and I think it has a lot more use left in it. Apple did a great job with support and backwards compatibility for a long time. Then OS X hit the scene. What is the deal with QuickTime 7 having no OS 9.x compatibility?!? Are there any plans on making a version that works in the classic environment? I hope Apple isn't planning on maintaining this new philosophy it has adopted that looks like it was the brain child of some Microsoft coperate reject hired by Apple, convincing Apple that the company will make more money by forcing the customer to constently have to get a newer OS to run the trickle of new software releases that aren't backwards compatible and invoke laughter at the notion of being able to work on a classic environment...That seems to be what's happening. They're even already getting to the point where a list of compatible versions of minor Mac OS releases have to be listed just like there's a list of compatible Microsoft OS versions on a software box, where as before, being compatible with a Mac OS autimatically ment that it worked with all versions of the Mac OS. Oh well..... But anyway, does anyone know if anyone is making a version of QuickTime 7 that works on the classic environment, or at least is planning on making one?
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Hshin said 7:12PM on 8-01-2005
Geoffrey, on behalf of all us using computers, welcome back to the computer world, where obselescence is the only certainty you'll ever get on any machine. Did I say any? Yes, obselescence work on Macs just as well as on the PC. Look at the... what was it again? Newton Messagepad? (Hello? Steve?)
So please, try to get used to it.
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Geoffrey said 7:52PM on 8-02-2005
Come on. Do you really think that OS 9.2.2 is old enough to validate creating a program as relavent as QuickTime 7, the only Mac compatible version of its kind so far that can handle H.264 format, and not make a version that's compatible with OS 9.2.2? I don't. I'm all for progress and moving forward. Hey, this Unix based OS X is probably going to make things much easier for developers to make things for Mac and PC, but it's still in the transition stage. It's not like I'm someone demanding Microsoft to develope an advanced photo-editing program for Windows 95.... Don't the long term customers, who have invested a lot of money over the years building a library of Mac software, deserve a little more consideration? I'll admit that I was pretty harsh in my previous post, but the spirit of it remains; that I think it would be unkind to not crank out a QuickTime 7 that's compatible with the classic OS.
Anyway, the question still remains. Are there any plans for a QuickTime 7 that runs on a classic OS?
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Geoffrey said 7:53PM on 8-02-2005
Come on. Do you really think that OS 9.2.2 is old enough to validate creating a program as relavent as QuickTime 7, the only Mac compatible version of its kind so far that can handle H.264 format, and not make a version that's compatible with OS 9.2.2? I don't. I'm all for progress and moving forward. Hey, this Unix based OS X is probably going to make things much easier for developers to make things for Mac and PC, but it's still in the transition stage. It's not like I'm someone demanding Microsoft to develope an advanced photo-editing program for Windows 95.... Don't the long term customers, who have invested a lot of money over the years building a library of Mac software, deserve a little more consideration? I'll admit that I was pretty harsh in my previous post, but the spirit of it remains; that I think it would be unkind to not crank out a QuickTime 7 that's compatible with the classic OS.
Anyway, the question still remains. Are there any plans for a QuickTime 7 that runs on a classic OS?
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Geoffrey said 5:25PM on 8-03-2005
Sorry about the double post, doesn't look like the admin is going to remove it upon my request...
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gordon said 1:18PM on 9-25-2005
I'm no longer able to save streamed mp3's via safari quicktime plugin. Before I upgraded after the mp3 streamed I was able to go to safari > file > save as > save the mp3. Now when I save I get a 4 - 8 mb mpga file that only plays the first second or so of the song. Now if I want to save, I have to listen to the stream, then back to previous page and rt-click on link > download linked file to save the source. Note that if I try the exact same thing I still can do this. Just another reason to upgrade to "pro". This sucks!
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