Apple & Sony can kiss mine...

[EvilCabbage]

What really upsets me... they release some cool new trailers, and to view them, you need to stream them with quicktime.

For a start, quicktime irritates me terribly, and forcing me to stream their crap?.. to hell with that.

Anyone know a way to download stuff like the new star wars trailer?

[Larommi]

Just watched it on TV tonight after Malcom In The Middle. The new Star Wars looks awesome.

[EvilCabbage]

[quote]Originally posted by Larommi:
<strong>Just watched it on TV tonight after Malcom In The Middle. The new Star Wars looks awesome.</strong><hr></blockquote>


Great.. now im REALLY chomping at the bit to watch it

[gxavier]

uh...quicktime does not stream....all those trailers are big chunks of data. theres no buffering...you can move about anywhere in the movie at all times. .just wait until they are done, click the arrow, and save them. then watch them in presentation mode. which is the best feature of quicktime pro 5. presentation mode actually re-renders pixels, and brightens the image, making fullscreen quicktime almost as good as dvd.

quicktime is the highest quality compressed video out there.

divx only beats it because of its filesize.

[+Daemon+]

I like quicktime best tool for streaming videos, oh wait maybe cause I have a Mac and I get the full version free

[ilovetheusers]

[quote]Originally posted by gxavier:
<strong> quicktime is the highest quality compressed video out there.

divx only beats it because of its filesize.</strong><hr></blockquote>

I don't agree at all. I really don't like quicktime at all. The files are waaaayyy to big for the quality you get. When I make my movies for the net and I create them in QT, WMV or RM format the QT files of the same size never look anything close to the others. Personally I think you see a lot of QT stuff because a lot of people who edit video/graphics and the like work on Mac's and QT is native to that environment. Maybe the format is better but for web use (which it is for) I personally find it useless.

[gxavier]

its in use worldwide because:

a) it has great quality
b) its apple, and all movies are usually applebased
c) its not technically streaming, yet you can watch it while downloading, unlike other formats.

[ilovetheusers]

Yeah, but the others still give a hell of a lot better picture for the file size. Go to my website in my signature and you will see the comparison between the 3 on the full videos page. The QT file is much bigger and much lower quality. I used cleaner 5 to encode all of the videos.

[gxavier]

your doing something wrong encoding it then. thats probably the worst quicktime ive seen ever.

quicktime isn't meant to be supercompression. its meant to be high quality theatrical productions. something you can pause and take screenshots of, and blow them up to see little things to spoil movie plots for the rest of us.

[ilovetheusers]

I lied - I used Adobe Premiere with Cleaner installed as well. I also have QT 5 loaded.

Here's what I did:

Started as a 320x240 mpg. Chopped it up, added the pics and music and sent it straight to the 3 formats. File, export timeline, save for web. Cleaner 5EZ opens and I used the QT progressive download/big movie (best) option. That's what all of my QT stuff looks like.

I've seen digital 8 and DV footage dropped to QT format and they look pixleated too. It drops the quality so fast, even when you set it for broadband. As for what QT is supposed to be used for, well, if it's not meant to be a supercompression format - why is is used for web apps? I'm not trying to start an argument - I really want to know.

[Rellik]

[quote]Originally posted by EvilCabbage:
<strong>What really upsets me... they release some cool new trailers, and to view them, you need to stream them with quicktime.

For a start, quicktime irritates me terribly, and forcing me to stream their crap?.. to hell with that.

Anyone know a way to download stuff like the new star wars trailer? </strong><hr></blockquote>

Scout around this
<a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/11/0229215&mode=thread" target="_blank">Article</a> at slashdot, some people posted links to Divix5 and WMV formats found elsewhere on the net, but don't use the original article's link as <a href="http://www.starwars.com" target="_blank">www.starwars.com</a> has blocked slashdot as a refferer.

[EvilCabbage]

[quote]Originally posted by Rellik:
<strong>
...www.starwars.com[/URL] has blocked slashdot as a refferer.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Heh.. they werent the only ones

Ph33r the l33t0r slashdotting effect...

[ßracius]

[quote]Originally posted by Daemon:
<strong>I like quicktime best tool for streaming videos, oh wait maybe cause I have a Mac and I get the full version free </strong><hr></blockquote>

You are way to happy