Please Help! I am new.

Iceman7 · Post by **Iceman7** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 12:49 pm

Hey, I am new to this site and I was wondering how to watch video's and can I watch them with quicktime. Well, I appreciate the help thanks!

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 2:22 pm

Here's a question I can't immediately answer. Can Quicktime handle other formats or is it limited to .MOV files? I use it so little.

You haven't told us if you're using a Mac or not here, because otherwise you might want to use Windows Media Player for most of your needs. Quicktime is not the most broadly used format for AMVs here' most popular seem to be MPEG-1, AVI (usually DivX or XviD codecs), Windows Media, and even RealMedia for the hardcore DBZ devotees.

As for downloading them, you need to go to the main page (the site's main page, not the forum's main page) and search from there.

Illia Sadri · Post by **Illia Sadri** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 2:43 pm

I agree Windows Media is what you want to use (I do believe there is a Mac version even) so unless you are on Linux that is your best option as it supports almost every popular amv format.

Real Media is the only one it does not support and as mentioned that is mostly done for DBZ videos and those still on 56k dialup and are generally of such awful quality where you don't want to bother.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 5:23 pm

Illia Sadri wrote:Real Media is the only one it does not support and as mentioned that is mostly done for DBZ videos and those still on 56k dialup and are generally of such awful quality where you don't want to bother.

Not true. I can get a good looking VBR encode of a 3:31 video down to 16MB and it's nearly the same quality as the 48MB XviD.

kmv · Post by **kmv** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 5:51 pm

If you are using a Mac, I recommend MPlayer.
http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/

EarthCurrent · Post by **EarthCurrent** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 4:51 am

If my computer catches fire should I pour water on it? Or just prod at it with a fork?

kmv · Post by **kmv** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:20 am

EarthCurrent wrote:If my computer catches fire should I pour water on it? Or just prod at it with a fork?

You should run around the room six times in an anticlockwise direction shouting "I'm a teapot!"

Or you could unplug it and call the fire department.

§_Akuma_§ · Post by **§_Akuma_§** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:32 pm

NicholasDWolfwood wrote:
Illia Sadri wrote:Real Media is the only one it does not support and as mentioned that is mostly done for DBZ videos and those still on 56k dialup and are generally of such awful quality where you don't want to bother.
Not true. I can get a good looking VBR encode of a 3:31 video down to 16MB and it's nearly the same quality as the 48MB XviD.

*cough*bullshit*cough*

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:06 pm

RichLather wrote:Here's a question I can't immediately answer. Can Quicktime handle other formats or is it limited to .MOV files? I use it so little.

Quicktime the player can handle Quicktime, MPEG-4, and AVI containers. There might be more.

As far as support from there goes:
Anything "standard" in a Quicktime container will be playable by Apple's Quicktime Player. This includes (but is certainly not limited to) uncompressed/Sorenson video streams, various encodes of audio streams (say, MPEG-4 audio, QDesign Music, MP3 (I'm pretty sure), and so forth), Macromedia Flash animations, text messages, and so forth.

I don't know about AVI. The logical thing to do under Windows would be to pass it all through the DirectShow interfaces, but we all know how logical software engineering is.

Quicktime the container format will handle pretty much anything you throw at it, as exemplified by the myriad of things that Apple stuffs inside those downloadable Quicktime movie trailers and the Quicktime4Linux project (which has built in several codecs, such as Vorbis audio and DivX video, into the Quicktime framework).