#Quicktime for mac reviews movie#
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Beware, the install itself is about 60Mb (one of the larger player installs I've had). You don't have to get the bundled version. Yes, it's a myth, there is a standalone installer of QuickTime that you can find on Softpedia's site (located here) and if you want to grab it directly from the MAC Web site, you can go in the inner dungeons and backdoor shortcuts where they secretly keep this mythical little program ( here). Well, I'm going to share something for the typical user out there that has this myth that QuickTime has to be installed with iTunes.

But is it worth having as your main player? Let's find out in the review.

#Quicktime for mac reviews movie#

QuickTime is used for the latest movie trailers and media files because of its good video and audio quality. It's literally tied in to millions of daily media streams. I've never needed it, but I have it installed.If you've ever surfed the net, I don't know how QuickTime could have possibly passed you over. Whether you think it's useful is up to you. The component is 1 MB in size, not taking up a lot of space or RAM. Since 2010, Google has not advanced the QuickTime component any further. These days, WebM continues on as an alternative codec for web programming.

Eventually, Google backed down and never withdrew H.264 support in Chrome. Therefore, a great deal of argument arose in the computer community regarding the point of WebM and Google's attempt to foist it on the world while denigrating H.264. WebM is, as I pointed out above, NOT actually an open source project, despite hype to the contrary. H.264 is specifically part of the HTML5 specification. In 2010, Google threatened to remove considerable support for H.264 from Chrome while instead supporting their WebM technology. The background: There has been a lot of controversy regarding WebM. This QuickTime component requires that you separately install the XiphQT component for audio functionality. There is nothing new here, despite it being listed at new as of today at MacUpdate. This component version is v0.001 from 2010. What is installed is copyrighted specifically by Google. When possible, let the encoder make the tough choices.

Highest quality real-time video delivery.

Low computational footprint to enable playback on any device, including low-power netbooks, handhelds, tablets, etc.

WebM is focused on addressing the unique needs of serving video on the web. Existing video formats were designed to serve the needs of these mediums and do it very well.

#Quicktime for mac reviews Offline#

Serving video on the web is different from traditional broadcast and offline mediums. WebM is 100% free, and open-sourced under a BSD-style license. With video being core to the web experience, a high-quality, open video format choice is needed. A key factor in the web's success is that its core technologies such as HTML, HTTP, and TCP/IP are open for anyone to implement and improve. The WebM file structure is based on the Matroska container. WebM files consist of video streams compressed with the VP8 video codec and audio streams compressed with the Vorbis audio codec. WebM defines the file container structure, video, and audio formats. WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the Web. WebM for Quicktime is a video component which provides WebM support on the Mac platform.