QuickTime X leaps forward in Snow Leopard

Has anyone found a fix for QuickTime Player 10.0 in Snow Leopard? My WMV files do not open. A pop up saying "QuickTime Player must be installed to run this application"
The "QT Player 10.0 was installed from the install disk for Snow Leopard and shows in the Finder under Applications"?

Has anyone found a fix for QuickTime Player 10.0 in Snow Leopard? My WMV files do not open. A pop up saying "QuickTime Player must be installed to run this application"
The "QT Player 10.0 was installed from the install disk for Snow Leopard and shows in the Finder under Applications"?

Has anyone found a fix for Quick Time Player 10.0 on Snow Leopard? WMV files will not open, posting a pop up that says "Quick Time Player must be installed to run this application"? The QT Player has been installed from the Snow Leopard install disk and appears in the "Application" finder.

I am wondering about the web browser plug-in, and if the new QT Player will be available as a free download for all common platforms. It would be really nice to be able to embed in a blog or web page with a full screen option. Will I need to keep my QT7 Pro unless I upgrade Final Cut Studio to a new version compatible with the new QuicktimeX? Lastly, I am wondering if a freely available Quicktime X plug-in will get around the problem of playing RTSP on Mozilla Firefox. (I am talking about true video streaming from Darwin Streaming Server, not progressive download or pseudo-streaming). The Mozilla development team doesn't seem to be interested in identifying this as an issue that needs to be resolved, so I am not optimistic that Firefox 4 will solve anything in this regard (FF2 video with RTSP well; with FF3, the video breaks up). My sense has been that Quicktime has been at risk of become irrelevant for web streaming, but I have no idea whether the QTX is going to reverse that. If it is not a free download but only comes bindles with the OS, what is the sense?

Soapbox? Um. Recommending VLC to play your bittorrented, DIVX-encoded AVIs of BBC television or whatever the heck you're grabbing and expecting Apple to support is soapboxing?

It's just practical: Apple sells content through the iTunes Store these days. They're sitting on a billion dollars a year in revenue (or more) from music, television and film producers. Worrying about supporting whatever the torrent community is doing *in QuickTime Player* is a distraction, at best, and harmful to Apple's relationships with those content producers at worst. Given that, I wouldn't hold my breath for Apple to support Your Favorite Obscure Video Codec *in QuickTime* when there are no shortage of free, open source players that do that already.

If you're worried about AVI and DIVX support these days, you're torrenting television and movies; people are going to do whatever they're going to do, but expecting Apple to support that is silly. There are already free, open source players (seriously, you've never heard of VLC?) for those things NOW. You're not Apple's target customer for those things, you never were, and - given that Apple is utterly dependent on film and television copyright holders for content - you very likely *won't be Apple's target customer* for this sort of thing *for the foreseeable future.*

I'm not saying Apple should invest in making Flash better. Please note I said Apple should deliver h.264 (MPEG-4) in an easy-to-deploy Flash container. It's one of the few places where Apple's Not Invented Here past tends to rear its head, but Apple *could* (but won't) do the following:

1. Aggressively optimize h.264 encoding in Snow Leopard (I suspect they're already going to do this, probably with OpenCL).

2. Make deploying the whole thing in a Flash player a one-click export out of QuickTime player, much as you can upload to YouTube out of iMovie now, with one important difference: a QuickTime X-generated flash player could support whatever extras Apple chose to implement (easy download of the source video, packaging iPod or iPhone-ready versions along with the original, delivering the whole thing through MobileMe, etc.) and they could make it *beautiful*.

In so doing, plugin issues and browser support becomes totally irrelevant. They'd deliver to what the rest of the world is already using to watch video *on the web* (totally leaving aside from the folks bittorrenting stuff illegally, which is irrelevant to this discussion entirely) and make QuickTime and the Macintosh the easiest platform for doing this sort of thing for end users who don't want to bother with learning to package stuff for flash delivery "by hand."

If the argument against this is that by doing this Apple would somehow "benefit" Flash, that argument works just as much - if not more - for doong one-click delivery to YouTube, which Apple is *already* doing.

Hopefully the current necessary codecs like Perian and Flip4Mac will still work, or be easily adaptable to the new architecture, otherwise it's a non-starter.

Why would anyone want the new player if it won't play the majority of videos available on the Internet?

Did Apple mention any solutions for playing AVI and WMV videos?

(I have hopes that Apple understands what they mean when they say they are enhancing QuickTime for the Future).

Wow! Thats a great update! Video conversion without getting the Pro version, and online streaming! Will also see plug-ins from uStream and others later on....

Waiting to get my hands on....

Quicktime's new logo... a long erect pole diving into a pink hole. Uh. Ok....