[Video] G*dd**n F*****g Quicktime!

[Peter.Steele]

I installed quicktime the other day so that I could play some .MOV files I have. Unfortunately, these files are ones I need access to, so there's no option of simply deleting that POS software!

Here's my problem, though:

When I installed it, I told it to ONLY be the default player for .MOV and .DV files. I SPECIFICALLY went through and un-checked every single other thing. Then later on, I was surfing around the web, and went to play some streaming .MPG content.

No problem, right? I mean, after all, it had worked perfectly before - defaulting through WMP - and I could play my videos in full screen mode on my second monitor.

Nope. There's a problem. Everything gets hijacked through Quicktime in its original window in IE. And you can't re-size them. If you're watching a 320x240 clip of something, that's the size it stays. And it looks like crap on a 1280x1024 monitor.

Ok, so, then I opened quicktime back up ... and sure enough, ALL the file tpyes were set to default through QT. I went and re-disabled everything, closed out of it, checked the file type associations in WMP, and they were fine.

Go back to the web ... no change. Everything's the same. So this time I go in and disable the quicktime plugin in IE7.

Go back to the web ... there's a change. Now I can't watch the movies at -all-. They won't even open up through WMP now. It's not just that they won't stream ... now I'm not even getting a 'save as ...' dialog. It just goes to a 'this page cannot be displayed' screen.


WTF do I have to do to get the Apple vampire to quit sucking my videos away?!?!?!?

 

[Floyd]

I made the same mistake a year or two ago in Windows XP. I swore I'd never load Quicktime again.

On my current computer, in a weak moment, I installed the POS software again. I thought perhaps with Vista and IE it would be different. Not so.

Be sure that Quicktime isn't checking for updated versions at boot up.
Remove it as a plugin from IE.
Go BACK into Quicktime and re-UNCHECK everything. Be sure you "save" or "OK".

You may have to re-associate file types within Windows.

Oh, yeah. Uninstall Quicktime and email the program back to the company.

Floyd (I feel your pain)

 

[Zips]

Use VLC media player for your quicktime movies.

 

[Monkwarrior]

Or switch to linux for this normal stuff and use one of the excellent players on that platform.

Monk.

 

[PUTZ]

Turn off qttask from starting up, first off.

Run > msconfig > Startup tab > uncheck qttask

Problem (at least for me...) solved. I have no problems with the program stealing back filetype associations...

 

[Coey]

Quicktime crashes my Firefox. Alot of things crash my Firefox.

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Overall, Quicktime is annoying as all hell...

 

[Reddog]

There's alternatives, VLC, Quicktime Alternative, etc.

Use google and your head.

 

[Shadrach]

Quicktime Alternative is good, but it still crashes my Opera when it tries to play an embedded qt file.

Why wont webmasters just realize that flash video works on *every single browser* and get the hell away from those proprietary formats like embedded qt or wmv or whatever??! And quality is just as good if not better, check out Vimeo HD for instance... lovely widescreen flash video.

 

[Donut]

How am I supposed to download my pron if its in Flash? I can't find agood program to download Flash diles with. Vixy's ok, but it seems to only work with Youtube, for some reason.

 

[Nimsky]

Quicktime is a very good format actually, it usually is good quality and you can easily fast-forward into the movies.

But yeah, the program itself can be rather annoying. It starts when you boot Windows, and you cannot turn this off. Well, you can turn it off but it boots withs Windows again after some time.

Get Quicktime Alternative to use Quicktime (comes with the FF plugin), but without all the crap that comes with it.

How am I supposed to download my pron if its in Flash? I can't find agood program to download Flash diles with. Vixy's ok, but it seems to only work with Youtube, for some reason.

You can use a plugin like this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
More: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=video+download&status=4

Or use this website: http://www.mediaconverter.org/

To play .flv files: http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/flv-player/

 

[Shadrach]

I usually fish the flv files out of the browser cache if I want to keep it, old school style

And besides, the pr0n industry seems to be kinda conservative in this regard, as they have yet to adopt flash videos on their sites, at least as far as I can tell

 

[Coey]

Orbit downloader works pretty well. For YouTube anyway.

 

[Donut]

Using IE, so Im thinking a Firefox plugin wont work.
Nice converter site though, seems good. Already had a .flv player, but thanks.
Havent had any trouble with Quicktime myself, but Ill try to find something out.