QuickTime Survey

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 1:23 am

I use Quicktime for the following:

(1) source footage conversions
(2) intermediate renders
(3) masters

I've found Quicktime to be a very nice system for video production and video archiving. (Video distribution is quite another matter, obviously.)

If anybody's interested, http://www.heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3 provides a little more detail about the Quicktime4Linux library, and will hopefully make me look a little less weird for liking QT.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 1:34 am

...and I seem to have cut a crucial part of my answer off. again. argh.

I have Quicktime installed on my Windows systems, and it works pretty well, for the few Quicktime files I do run across online. Still, I don't think Quicktime is the best medium for online distribution of videos.

Yet, anyway. This is why:

Although we do now have access to a free implementation of Sorenson V1, the latest iteration is something around Sorenson V3, and predictably, V3 tops V1. Sorenson Vision technically isn't closed, but Apple's legal department and Sorenson have been pointing fingers at each other, stating "oh no, THEY told us we couldn't redistribute it" for just about forever now, so it's pretty well encumbered.

When you have a closed codec, the spread of that codec is really, really hampered.

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FurryCurry · Post by **FurryCurry** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 1:38 am

^^ that's why I like XviD. Open Source, cross platform, standards driven.

It's not perfect(yet), but its the best thing going right now, IMO.

Dark Kamui · Post by **Dark Kamui** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 1:52 am

BSplayer (www.bsplayer.org) can do the shipmunks thing too... -_-