QuickTime Player's lack of fullscreen playback (without ponying up the cash for a Pro license, that is) has long been an unnecessary annoyance. Sure, you could always use some sort of AppleScript hack (e.g. osascript -e 'tell application "QuickTime Player" to present front movie scale screen') to get around that, or watch your videos in Front Row for that matter, but there never was a good reason why the free player shouldn't be able to play using the full screen using a normal menu option. Now, according to Victor Agreda Jr, our TUAW man on the spot at WWDC, that limitation will be no more. "The next version of QT," he writes, "doesn't need the Pro version to play fullscreen." And we at TUAW add: it's about time!
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6-12-2007 @ 2:16PM
Matt said...
Well since 'QuickView' played the video, and full screen at that, I would think the number of people actually opening QT will be virtually nil.
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6-12-2007 @ 2:19PM
solipsism said...
I'm with Matt. When I saw the keynote and saw QuickView at fullscreen it was immediately clear that Quicktime could be used less often and that Apple would jut go ahead and give QT fullscreen capabilities.
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6-12-2007 @ 2:28PM
Michael said...
> The next version of QT
Does that mean a new major version, like QuickTime 8.0, breaking everyone's QT Pro key?!
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6-12-2007 @ 2:29PM
NitRam Den Gale said...
It would be about friggin time! The hold back on the fullscreeen feature is really starting to get ridicolous!
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6-12-2007 @ 2:38PM
MIKE said...
guys are you kidding me? why so much debate over a full screen option??? I'm sorry, but from this point of view quick time is retarded. As much as I love the Apple brand, MS does it much better here...
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6-12-2007 @ 2:52PM
Greg Perkins said...
If VLC had better audio output I'd have dumped Quicktime long ago.
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6-12-2007 @ 2:52PM
Ahmad said...
does what better, Mike?
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6-12-2007 @ 3:58PM
Ricardo said...
confirmed
here's a screenshot of Quicktime in Leopard
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m172/milodeescorpion19/quicktime.jpg
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6-12-2007 @ 4:24PM
Chris said...
...and I'd like to add that I want a refund, since full-screen playback is the only reason I paid for a Pro license. Yes, shame on me.
Chris
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6-12-2007 @ 6:34PM
john russell said...
Am I the only one who thought to assign a QuickSilver trigger of Cmd-F to run the command presented above in the shell?
It does the same thing without:
a. opening the terminal
and
b. paying $30 for QT Pro
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6-12-2007 @ 6:39PM
Bones3D said...
Not sure why this is "news", versiontracker lists dozens of freeware apps that do little more than grant access to the full Quicktime toolset without requiring the Quicktime Pro upgrade.
Is there something more to this, like more a more agressive Quicktime that will break any app attempting to access a pro feature if the user doesn't buy a pro key first? Something like this could have nasty results for developers of Quicktime compatible apps when users who buy their program find out they have to pay out an added $20 on top of what they just paid to get the app itself.
Let's just hope this is an over-zealous article over a feature users can get anywhere simply by looking beyond Quicktime Player.
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6-12-2007 @ 6:41PM
pentumforever said...
#9 If this will come with QuickTime 8 (what I assume for this post) then your Pro Key will be broken anyway.
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6-12-2007 @ 8:04PM
Ricardo said...
So far Leopard still uses Quicktime 7.1.6 , no Quicktime 8 yet
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6-13-2007 @ 7:38AM
Kishor Gurtu said...
Looks like poor Dawn M. Fredette is going out of business :-)
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6-13-2007 @ 1:50PM
Kendall Tawes said...
Maybe they could just get rid of the Pro Version entirely and bring all the capabilities of it to the free version. The last full capable version of Quicktime I had was 2.5 or so back in OS 7 or maybe it was 3 on OS 8. In any case much like .Mac I doubt I will ever see a full capable free version again but there is always hope.
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6-13-2007 @ 9:34PM
samfish said...
Meh. I've stick with VLC, thankyuhverymuch!
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7-17-2007 @ 2:42AM
clockwork said...
Just noticed that a quicktime update is availlable with the following fixes:
QuickTime 7.2 addresses critical security issues and delivers:
- Support for full screen viewing in QuickTime Player
- Updates to the H.264 codec
- Numerous bug fixes
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