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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 TylerL82 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Were you by chance viewing the 1080p trailers on a 30" Cinema Display? Try the same video on a G5 with a 23" display attached.

      I've seen (and tried to fix) poor HD performance on retail store Dual 2.7GHz G5s with 30" ACDs.
      1080p screws up somewhere along the video pipeline (drivers, video card, duallink DVI) for the 30" display...but a slower PowerMac hooked up to a 23" display plays 1080p smooth as silk. What's the holdup?

    2. 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. Re:Announced this morning by Space+cowboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gaah.... s/on/o/ fabitch

    Preview, not Submit. Preview, not Submit...

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  4. 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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  5. 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.

  6. a quick idea whose time has come by Leontes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know this has been mentioned before, but I think it merits further emphasis. Quicktime pro being a payable extra is patently ridiculous. All of the elements of tiger work flawlessly together, but quicktime pro, something that makes things a lot easier as well as nicer (I mean, full screen, that's an extra?) is a lot to ask a computer user. I cannot imagine the revenue retained by apple by maintain quicktime pro is very much; and the good karma earned by making it available to everyone would be beneficial. It made sense a few years ago, perhaps, but now everyone should expect the things that are included to be with pro to be inherent in the basic version. As long as it remains an add on, on either platform, the longer it feels like one piece of the apple puzzle that just doesn't fit. It's like apple is big and shiny but there is one huge bite out of it. But not in an aesthetically pleasing, oh this is a nice logo way. Please, apple, make the pro version standard. Why is it so different from everything else on the system?

  7. 12-14fps on P-M 1.8GHz by TheGuano · · Score: 2, Interesting
    on the 720p Batban Begins. Doesn't go under 10fps, doesn't go over 17fps. Shrinking the window doesn't help and might even slow things down, so the bottleneck is not drawing the decoded scene to screen.

    It does look a lot crisper than those WMV-HD Imax clips up at Microsoft's site. But I'm able to play those at full speed, even the 1080 ones. So there could be some major tweaking left to do.

  8. Mmm... QTTask.exe by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey Apple! Get rid of QTTask.exe and anything else that tries to quietly install itself without permission.

    It was awfully clever of you to have QTTask.exe re-spawn after deletion. But don't do it again.