Quicktime X for Leopard, When?


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As far as I am aware there has actually been nothing confirmed in regards to this being released for Windows.

I'd like to try it out though. I've never used QuickTime before, I've never really had a need and always hated the interface. However, if Apple can optimise QuickTime X for Windows, like they did with Safari, that would be nice.

I love the new QuickTime X icon :p I just hope iTunes adopts a similar coloured icon :)

Apple NEED to optimise Quicktime on Windows. It is incredibly bloated and laggy even on high end spec machines. I think Apple will probably already have a Windows version in the pipeline somewhere, well I hope so at least :)

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Apple NEED to optimise Quicktime on Windows. It is incredibly bloated and laggy even on high end spec machines. I think Apple will probably already have a Windows version in the pipeline somewhere, well I hope so at least :)

Maybe if Microsoft does the same to Offfice 2008:mac and Messenger for Mac, Apple will return the favour. ;)

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Maybe if Microsoft does the same to Offfice 2008:mac and Messenger for Mac, Apple will return the favour. ;)

As I understand it, office 2010 for mac is being rewritten in cocoa instead of 2008's carbon and Messenger 8 is actually finished.

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Maybe if Microsoft does the same to Offfice 2008:mac and Messenger for Mac, Apple will return the favour. ;)

LOL So true... somehow they do already with this strange interface of iTunes in the Windows environment.

I haven't thought about the possibility of not having QuickTime X for Vista and 7, but since it is already available for Windows since a long time already, and that Apple keeps up with the updates equally on the Mac and on Windows, it's a given for me. Then, Leopard isn't all that old and dusty either, so I don't know why it wouldn't be able to have Quicktime X on it.

About Pro / Regular versions, you're scarying me .Reo... That was one of the worst bad things that Apple had to get rid of ASAP, and even I would admit that (yeah, there are things like these that I really cannot deny).

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As I understand it, office 2010 for mac is being rewritten in cocoa instead of 2008's carbon and Messenger 8 is actually finished.

Where did you hear this?

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"Quicktime X" is the core tech behind the player and from the way i read it and heard it on the WWDC Keynote is that "Quicktime X" itself is an embedded tech of the Snow Leopard OS.

now "Quicktime Player 10.0" is just that, a player, not truely reflective of the actual core power of "Quicktime X" to me that makes it seem as if Windows wont be getting anything other than an interface upgrade if at all.

And the "Pro" features will be default in Quicktime, however from testing the WWDC preview of SL, those editing features do not come close the features and functions of current Quicktime PRO 7.6, it is a "dumbed down" version of PRO

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"Quicktime X" is the core tech behind the player and from the way i read it and heard it on the WWDC Keynote is that "Quicktime X" itself is an embedded tech of the Snow Leopard OS.

now "Quicktime Player 10.0" is just that, a player, not truely reflective of the actual core power of "Quicktime X" to me that makes it seem as if Windows wont be getting anything other than an interface upgrade if at all.

And the "Pro" features will be default in Quicktime, however from testing the WWDC preview of SL, those editing features do not come close the features and functions of current Quicktime PRO 7.6, it is a "dumbed down" version of PRO

I quiet agree with you, I think Quicktime X is optimized to run in Snow Leopard with the proper hardware to support H.264

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That's the thing why I started hating Apple, I bought my iMac last year and already feel that my system is useless because the ATI HD 2600 PRO is not supported. Apple is just another greedy ****** company.

Doesn't the ATI HD 2600 PRO support hardware acceleration for H.264. The spec for the GPU says it has UVD. I am assuming that's another way of saying hardware acceleration. http://ati.amd.com/products/Radeonhd2600/specs.html

ATI Avivo? HD Video and Display Platform

Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats

High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats

Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DivX video decode acceleration

Motion compensation and iDCT (inverse discrete cosine transform)

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Doesn't the ATI HD 2600 PRO support hardware acceleration for H.264. The spec for the GPU says it has UVD. I am assuming that's another way of saying hardware acceleration. http://ati.amd.com/products/Radeonhd2600/specs.html

ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform

Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats

High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats

Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DivX video decode acceleration

Motion compensation and iDCT (inverse discrete cosine transform)

It's not that info for the PC version? :blink:

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But it was Apple's hardware decision to use that chip, and they easily could have gone with something else. So either they had not been working on Snow Leopard at all (doubtful), or it's a matter of planned obsoleteness.

At the time there was no Graphics Card for Mobile Computers that supported GPGPU

The only competitor to the ATi chip that Apple used was NVIDIAs 7 series and it also did not include GPGPU. The 8 series from NVIDIA did but it didn't launch for several months after the Notebooks did and a Mobile version was not available for a much longer period then that.

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Makes me wonder if they're finally dropping the Quick Time Pro thing with Snow Leopard.

Quicktime Pro is gone (at least on the Mac), it's just Quicktime X which has most of the features of Quicktime Pro (as other posts here are suggesting Quicktime X is a bit dumbed down, not sure how true that is?). As for Windows, who knows. I'm guessing most of the upgrades will be Mac exclusive and I also suspect all Windows users will get is an updated UI and Pro version will most likely remain for Windows (as I'm guessing the cost of Quicktime X is being factored into Snow Leopard's price, while on Windows it's give away for "free") and we know what Apple are like with this (for example the iPhone firmware, free for iPhone users and they charge Touch users so they get money out of it - but techically it's not free for iPhone users either, they are paying for it anyway through their phone plans). That is my take on it, take witha grain of salt.

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It is dumbed downed, the video editing functions present in Quciktime on Snowleopard are geared mainly to compliment the video upload feature for youtube and the like, possibly tied in with the iPhone 3.0 video functions as well? as they seem to be nearly identical

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Hmmm, not bad, not bad ccuk!

But... Public beta for MSN 8 this year? Why, they couldn't manage to add 2 features successfully, they needed to roll out a public beta for that? :(

Anyways, it'll still be one of the only messenging services that supports this... so we have no choice than to wait.

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If the MacBU works any slower they're moving backwards. Can't believe how long it takes for them to roll out a new Messenger version. Especially when looking at what a complete joke the last few "major" releases were. Bringing the interface up to 2009 standards is asking for the impossible too apparently.

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