How are you rendering .mov files?

craftech wrote on 4/27/2006, 5:50 PM

I know several of you have Quicktime Alternative because the Quicktime tools hijack your computer like Real media does.

So how are you rendering .mov files for those clients who want them?

John

Comments

Bob Greaves wrote on 4/27/2006, 6:04 PM

It is possible to keep Q-time from hijacking but you have to be very careful. It would be awesome if someone were to create a script that forced the registry and other settings to allow Q-time to only own what it is unique for.

Chienworks wrote on 4/27/2006, 6:25 PM

Starting around QuickTime 5 the installation has been very safe. The default installation only associates QuickTime with Apple file types. It leaves everything else alone and plays nicely. True, it does offer to associate most all media types with itself, but you actually have to deliberately click things to make this happen.

Former user wrote on 4/28/2006, 5:47 AM

I have found the recent versions of QT to be very friendly. You still have to go through preferences to disable some things, but overall not near as toxic as REAL.

Dave T2