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Rumor: Free full screen to come to QuickTime Player

by Erica Sadun Jun 12th 2007 at 2:00PM

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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clockwork

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

July 17 2007 at 2:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
samfish

Meh. I've stick with VLC, thankyuhverymuch!

June 13 2007 at 9:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kendall Tawes

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.

June 13 2007 at 1:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kishor Gurtu

Looks like poor Dawn M. Fredette is going out of business :-)

June 13 2007 at 7:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ricardo

So far Leopard still uses Quicktime 7.1.6 , no Quicktime 8 yet

June 12 2007 at 8:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pentumforever

#9 If this will come with QuickTime 8 (what I assume for this post) then your Pro Key will be broken anyway.

June 12 2007 at 6:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bones3D

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.

June 12 2007 at 6:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
john russell

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

June 12 2007 at 6:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

...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

June 12 2007 at 4:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ricardo

confirmed
here's a screenshot of Quicktime in Leopard
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m172/milodeescorpion19/quicktime.jpg

June 12 2007 at 3:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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