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QuickTime 7 Windows Preview Available

Posted by timothy on from the convergelance dept.

Tenken writes "Looks like Apple has finally made available a PC version of QuickTime 7. It seems to perform on par with the Mac release, though the H.264 decoding for hi-def trailers will probably see much more optimization before QT is officially released. The main reason to upgrade is to check out the new hi-def trailers which you can find at the QuickTime site. There are 480p and 720p versions available for the few hi-def trailers, though I'm fairly certain there were also 1080p clips online a few weeks ago."

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  1. Annonunced this morning by Space+cowboy · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... along with the podcasting updates that'll make iTunes even more popular, but for some reason things like this were skipped over :-)

    Simon.

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  2. 1080p Trailers by caperry · · Score: 4, Informative

    There were 1090p trailers, but it takes a LOT of hardware to decode them (I couldn't get full framerate on a Dual G5 box at the apple store) and I'm sure the Windows version can't do them at all yet - hence the removal.

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    1. Re:1080p Trailers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      No. Most all decoding is done in software/CPU and that's where the problem is, not in the raw display of the images.

      ATI were talking about building a hardware decoder for H.264 into their future cards but it's not there yet.

  3. mplayer by TRS-80 · · Score: 3, Informative

    mplayer (even on win32) plays the HD trailers fine already, no need to download Quicktime.

    1. Re:mplayer by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 2, Informative

      Reportedly, recent builds of VLC play them just fine too.

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  4. 720p/1080p trailers are there. by applegoddess · · Score: 5, Informative

    you just missed the link. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/ is the link to the 720p/1080p trailers :)

    1. Re:720p/1080p trailers are there. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      i see the 1080p trailers on http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/serenity. html and if http://images.apple.com/movies/us/hd_gallery/gl180 0/serenity_1080p.zip isnt the serenity trailer in 1080p, i don't know what it is.