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Re: 5secsautorotate & qt7
liz_golf 2005-Aug-24 23:39:00
I did not realize Player 6.5 (or other versions) actually works on Tiger even though QT7
does not having not gone there yet - I am sure this is a relief for many until the bug gets
fixed. If you need a copy of just the Player Pedro let me know as I have it for download.
Thanks Roger for the detailed explanantion...
Elizabeth
--- In #removed#, Roger Howard <#removed#> wrote:
>
> On Aug 23, 2005, at 7:59 PM, liz_golf wrote:
>
> > Hi Pedro -
> >
> > QT7 currently has a bug which prevents changing the controller. It
> > can still be done in QT
> > 6.5 Player but unfortunately not on Tiger (which supports only QT7).
>
> Correction:
>
> Tiger supports only Quicktime 7, true.
>
> However, Quicktime Player is *not* Quicktime. Almost any version of
> Quicktime Player should work on Tiger, with QuickTime 7. The
> functionality you're looking for was lost in Quicktime *Player*, not
> Quicktime itself, and so an older version of the player can be used
> with a newer version of Quicktime to regain that functionality.
>
> I have both QT Player 6.5 and QT Player 7 installed on the same Tiger
> machine, running QT 7. Anything QT Player v7 doesn't do anymore - or is
> buggy doing - I can easily use QT Player v6.5 for.
>
> Much like an old application like Premiere will suddenly gain new QT7
> features like H.264 encoding, but will not *lose* any of it's own
> functionality, some of what you consider "Quicktime" is just part of
> the QT Player application and some is part of the core Quicktime
> libraries.
>
> Quicktime - a library that provides media-related services to a variety
> of applications, but does nothing on it's own. It provides
> functionality for decoding and encoding images, audio. video, and other
> media.
> Quicktime Player - one particular application that uses Quicktime for
> core magic, but also provides it's own functionality. Generally
> Quicktime Player does *not* depend on any specific version of
> Quicktime, as most of the functionality the Player depends on has been
> in Quicktime itself for years.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Roger