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July 18th, 2002, 04:08 PM
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 QuickTime 6 MPEG-2 codec...for 20 bucks!! OMG - how comes Apple charges for a MPEG-2 codec!?? http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/mpeg2playback/
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July 18th, 2002, 04:10 PM
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| I really don't know.. Didn't QT5 have mpeg-2 support already??
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July 18th, 2002, 04:16 PM
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July 18th, 2002, 04:16 PM
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| I guess there will be some free 3rd-party plug-in avaliable soon and now, there is a VLC player for MPEG2 playback too. And for DVD videos, we have DVD Player.
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July 18th, 2002, 07:16 PM
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| Apple doing a MS? I think its very sad to take $20 for a viewer app. I thought Apple had a thing about helping clients and charging severs. Servers of content of all kind. Compare this case to; Acrobat Reader (free) / Destillier (pay), DVD Player (free) / DVDStudeio PRO (pay), RealOne Player (free) / RealOne Encoder (pay) plus many more. I who has developed VcdtoolsX and MPEG Info X, and many other developers has like me been vaiting along time for this release. And I felt like we been promised that MPEG playback would be a standard feature of the QT API. So now that we have been developing apps that none will/can use. Thats not what I call fun after almost 3 month of developing. All together its a 0.1 OS upgrade ($199), 15 mg Email + Homepage ($99), QT 6.0 Pro for Fullscreen ($30) and then MPEG Playback ($20). Its just too much for a student that developing freeware as myself. And no I cant even play DVDs in quicktime with it. Am I just whining? Best Regards! Jesper Nilsson Systemjammers Develop. |
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July 18th, 2002, 08:25 PM
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| plus... I just wanted to add that this is NOT a Codec. A codec should be able to encode & decode content. This is just a decoder for viewing purpose only. Note : Apple QuickTime 6 MPEG-2 Playback - 1.0 |
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July 19th, 2002, 12:17 AM
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| If it doesn't encode, it makes it kinda stupid. 29$ for QT pro, 20$ for playback, 100$ for .Mac, sorry Apple but you're just going down in my esteem Indeed, for a student all this shiz is expensive! This is just revolting
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July 19th, 2002, 12:25 AM
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| The $20 is probably to cover licensing fees that Apple has to pay.
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