I think users would GLADLY pay $100 for a full featured QT Player - the situation as it stands now is that Apple is perceived as requiring you to pay $30 just for full screen playback. Now you and I know that QT Pro gives you a hell of a lot more than that, but the continued inability to encode to MPEG1 (you get a free VCD compliant encoder with Toast!), MPEG1 Layer 2 and 3 (how many freeware/shareware encoders have this?) and MPEG2 (as you say, you get the components with "Pro" apps) - not to mention the crappy resize and resample offered by QT Player. I wish Apple would realise that QT is in a battle to the DEATH with WinMedia - if MS ever decides to fill out their architecture to include support for post production applications, QT will die. It's time for Apple to get all those encoding features into QT Pro, and to be up front about how much the license fees cost for those various encoding abilities.
And not dealing with out-of-order data is something that Apple SHOULD have been resolving now since MPEG1 playback was added - Sorensen 3 b-frames brought the matter to a high pitch of inconvenience, and Apple should have made their changes THEN, not now.
I don't want to sound like a corporate tool, but how is it Apple's fault that the courier nicked your laptops?
I'm lucky enough to work near to Micro Anvika, so I never buy Apple gear from Apple anyway, but I can understand what a pain in the arse it must have been for you.
I work with MPEG2 every stinkin day, and the BEST player is VLC on the PC. Better than WinMedia on the PC, better than MPlayer (way too flaky) better than QT Player on the Mac or PC, better than VLC on the Mac. QT Player has a fine habit of resizing across the wrong dimension, too.
We got the Apple MPEG2 playback component with Conmpressor, but its performance is really nothing to write home about. It's about time that Apple integrated MPEG into QuickTime properly (including encoding MPEG1, 2 and MPEG1 Layer 2 and 3 audio) they could then bump up the QT Pro price to a $100 or so and give us the standard toolkit that QT SHOULD HAVE HAD for the last 2 years.
Cleaner is dying, Apple should step up to the plate.
I attended elementary school in Pittsford, New York - then preparatory school in Slough, Berks; then grammar school in Burnham, Bucks; then university in London, England.
And just what the fuck is that supposed to mean in this context? How is it more proprietary than WinAmp?
Sure, Apple subsidises iTunes with the iPod - Apple probably consider iTunes to be nothing more than promotional software FOR the iPod, but that doesn't stop iTunes being FREE AS IN BEER, does it?
Well, he's not an entertainer as such, rather a fictional TV/radio personality who's major qualities are his terminal incompetence and his talent for pissing everyone off. He's pretty much modelled after the kind of sports presenter / chat show host that we all love to hate.
"The truth is, hardcore Wahabi's fear the kind of change that is occurring in their world, a world where women might be able to get a job or wear blue jeans once in a while."
You've obviously not been to Morocco - for every man in a Jellabah there's a girl in (usually black) jeans. Morocco has a great culture, and is more desirable place for the EU to trade dates, oranges and olives for tourists than fucking Israel, that's for sure.
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I think users would GLADLY pay $100 for a full featured QT Player - the situation as it stands now is that Apple is perceived as requiring you to pay $30 just for full screen playback. Now you and I know that QT Pro gives you a hell of a lot more than that, but the continued inability to encode to MPEG1 (you get a free VCD compliant encoder with Toast!), MPEG1 Layer 2 and 3 (how many freeware/shareware encoders have this?) and MPEG2 (as you say, you get the components with "Pro" apps) - not to mention the crappy resize and resample offered by QT Player. I wish Apple would realise that QT is in a battle to the DEATH with WinMedia - if MS ever decides to fill out their architecture to include support for post production applications, QT will die. It's time for Apple to get all those encoding features into QT Pro, and to be up front about how much the license fees cost for those various encoding abilities.
And not dealing with out-of-order data is something that Apple SHOULD have been resolving now since MPEG1 playback was added - Sorensen 3 b-frames brought the matter to a high pitch of inconvenience, and Apple should have made their changes THEN, not now.
I don't want to sound like a corporate tool, but how is it Apple's fault that the courier nicked your laptops?
I'm lucky enough to work near to Micro Anvika, so I never buy Apple gear from Apple anyway, but I can understand what a pain in the arse it must have been for you.
There's no difference between PAL and SECAM discs FYI.
I know Mr Blockbuster is looking to his bottom line, but my enemy's enemy is my friend - DEATH TO REGION CODING!
I'm sure that the MPAA's response will be more along the lines of RCE though...
So, what you're basically saying is:- he's wide open!
And QT Player doesn't?
I work with MPEG2 every stinkin day, and the BEST player is VLC on the PC. Better than WinMedia on the PC, better than MPlayer (way too flaky) better than QT Player on the Mac or PC, better than VLC on the Mac. QT Player has a fine habit of resizing across the wrong dimension, too.
I agree. They give away the QT Pro key with Pro applications like FCP and DVD SP, why not with Pro hardware - ie G5 towers and Powerbooks (at least)?
We got the Apple MPEG2 playback component with Conmpressor, but its performance is really nothing to write home about. It's about time that Apple integrated MPEG into QuickTime properly (including encoding MPEG1, 2 and MPEG1 Layer 2 and 3 audio) they could then bump up the QT Pro price to a $100 or so and give us the standard toolkit that QT SHOULD HAVE HAD for the last 2 years.
Cleaner is dying, Apple should step up to the plate.
Day time? And what time do you think "Alan's Deep Bath" is on?
Gay? How so?
I attended elementary school in Pittsford, New York - then preparatory school in Slough, Berks; then grammar school in Burnham, Bucks; then university in London, England.
That's how they taught me to do it at school...
telephone - 'phone
loudspeaker - 'speaker
etc
I think you'll find it's the correct way.
I know that perfectly well, but 7.1 refers to the CHANNELS, not the 'speakers.
Mind you, I think surround sound is unbearably shit anyway - except in computer games.
Winblows!
Hahahahahahahahahah! You think that one up by yourself? Let me try - Microshit! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!! Even better!
And what exactly is 0.1 of a 'speaker?
You DO realise that CDs are stereophonic, right?
"The iTunes client is proprietary"
And just what the fuck is that supposed to mean in this context? How is it more proprietary than WinAmp?
Sure, Apple subsidises iTunes with the iPod - Apple probably consider iTunes to be nothing more than promotional software FOR the iPod, but that doesn't stop iTunes being FREE AS IN BEER, does it?
Well, he's not an entertainer as such, rather a fictional TV/radio personality who's major qualities are his terminal incompetence and his talent for pissing everyone off. He's pretty much modelled after the kind of sports presenter / chat show host that we all love to hate.
We all fuck up, don't worry about it.
The whole anonymous thing is a bit pointless anyway - you may not believe this, but my REAL name may not actually BE Alan Partridge!
I didn't really understand that one.
I need to consult to them? What does that mean?
ARIGINALLY
please tell me that was some kind of super-typo (although A and O are a long way apart on a normal qwerty 'board)
The Moroccan rail system was built by the French. I'd put money on the fact that the ONCF uses the same system as the SNCF.
what the fuck is a metric mile?
True, I did last time I went to Morocco. But it wasn't exactly cheap - nearly 500UKP return Heathrow to Casablanca!
How would the Spanish fruit & veg industry operate without all the illegal immigrants?
"The truth is, hardcore Wahabi's fear the kind of change that is occurring in their world, a world where women might be able to get a job or wear blue jeans once in a while."
You've obviously not been to Morocco - for every man in a Jellabah there's a girl in (usually black) jeans. Morocco has a great culture, and is more desirable place for the EU to trade dates, oranges and olives for tourists than fucking Israel, that's for sure.
Oh fuck off.