Why bring up controls over the video when you don’t have to? Almost by definition you have room around the edge of the video, since you are playing it in windowed mode. I have no better solution for full screen, so my complaint is not with that, but with bringing that behavior to windowed video watching. Overlays bother me when watching full screen video, popping up over what I’m watching and no going away promptly when I’m done with them.
The Combined Community Codec Pack and QT Alternative/Lite were always two of the very first things to install on a new Windows installation. Never sent another penny their way since, and these days I try to avoid the format as much as possible. I recall buying an older version, several years ago (version 4 or 5 something)… just to get fullscreen mode! If that wasn’t enough, the next version came out, and I would have been forced to shell out more money for their player just to upgrade. mov format it pretty often used to the point that it can’t really be ignored.
I never did like QuickTime, especially thanks to all the crapware it installs with it (why the hell does freaking *media player*, of all things, need a startup service/system tray icon?), but unfortunately the.
Just install QuickTime Alternative (the codecs, plus some alternative media players such as Media Player Classic) or QTLite (the same, but no players) and be done with it. Why can’t it be like Firefox, and just occassionally check for updates while it’s running?Īnyway, if they can make it not suck so much ass, perhaps people will stop going out of their way in order to avoid installing it in the first place: …
And why the hell does it need an update app to begin with? That’s on a level of suckage with Adobe, which is pretty pathetic to say the least. I personally don’t like how it puts itself in the system tray, and then puts itself back after I delete it with Startup Control Panel, and then trying to do a piggyback install of Safari whenever it runs the update app.
Removing the window frame and titlebar from QuickTime will probably lead to more raised eyebrows.Īpple has described QuickTime X as a new version of its media software due to ship with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that “optimizes support for modern audio and video formats resulting in extremely efficient media playback.”Įfficient? That’s one word I would never use to describe Quicktime, or at least the current version.Īnyway, if they can make it not suck so much ass, perhaps people will stop going out of their way in order to avoid installing it in the first place: The Safari 4 beta already did away with the titlebar, or, at least, combined the titlebar with the tab bar, which received lots of criticism by even the staunchest of Apple supporters, such as John Gruber. In other words, Apple is kicking titlebars to the curb. The titlebar will also appear on mouse-over – it’s a transparent overlay. When you mouse-over, the UI widgets appear, similar to the current full-screen interface.
When QuickTime is running in a non-maximised state, all you see is the content of the video, without borders, titlebars, and controls. There are no borders, no permanent controls, not even a titlebar. Thanks to AppleInsider, we now have more information on the new interface, and it seems like Apple is again – just as with the Safari 4 beta – using some radical interface ideas.īasically, the QuickTime player has no more window.
This weekend, we learned that Apple’s upcoming Snow Leopard operating system would have a minimal user interface for the QuickTime movie player.