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Coursedesign wrote on 6/6/2005, 12:41 PM
Of course no upgrades from QT 6 Pro, just buy from scratch again.

I'm glad I bought it a long time ago, imagine those who bought QT6 Pro say last week...

It would be interesting to hear if somebody gets around to comparing Apple's H.264 codec with Nero's. I don't mean any previous prereleases, but the current one as I assume they've been fiddling with it (while Nero burns... sorry) continuously.
p@mast3rs wrote on 6/6/2005, 12:49 PM
I have used QT7 a couple weeks ago and compared it with Nero/Ateme's and QT7 H.264 has a ways to go to catch Ateme/Nero.

The only big difference is QT7 player is better than Nero's Showtime.

Somone on Doom9 did an extensive test not too long ago on the Mac. I dont think anyone other than myself that I know of had a chance to test the Windows QT7 before today.
B_JM wrote on 6/6/2005, 1:43 PM
the QT H264 is quite poor quality (in comparison) .... i'm not sure where they are going with this - but it doesnt compare at all to the free x264 or ahead h264 or even xvid ...

The player - as all QT players, is obtrusive and not well thought out in terms of its operation or the fact that that you really cant stop it from trying to check it's self online all the time except by firewall blocking.. IT is also cpu intensive compared to other quite good alternatives ..
p@mast3rs wrote on 6/6/2005, 5:40 PM
For a preview version the quality isnt bad but its not exactly great right now. No way I will pay $30 to beta test.

Right now Nero is still the king of the hill in H.264 AVC but QT7 does seem to beat Sorenson's poor offering of AVC.

One thing I didnt like about QT7 inside Vegas 6 was the inability to export H.264 WITH AAC audio. No AAC audio option was available.
B_JM wrote on 6/6/2005, 6:23 PM
vegas has always been a little strange with the audio options in a number of formats ---

like the crippled mp3 audio with some types of avi and as you mentioned crippled QT audio selections ..

And the weird thing that you can create a mpeg2 transport stream but not with ac3 multiplexed in -- which is the standard format for all mpeg2 hardware players for broadcast and such, except in a few rare cases ..



Laurence wrote on 6/6/2005, 8:39 PM
Well I just registered Quicktime 7 ... or I at least paid for a registration number... it doesn't actually work with the current version!
Spot|DSE wrote on 6/6/2005, 9:03 PM
You mean I'm not the only dummy here? :-)
Called Apple's tech support, the answer was "Well, it's a trial version"
OK, then why is there a purchase button specifically labeled "QT PRO for Windows" then?