quicktime v mediaplayer v realplayer arggggggh

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once and for all, can someone tell me the best way to solve my multimedia angst? Quicktime never seems to function properly, mediaplayer sucks for a variety of reasons, real just blows, what's a girl to do? do I just use winamp and search for the various codecs?

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 13 June 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

subthread: once you tell me the magic app, how do I clean all the remnants of the other programs out of my system properly?

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 13 June 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I use all three, each for what god intended: Quicktime for .mov, Windows Media for .mpeg / . avi and Realplayer for .rm / .rma(? whatever the Realplayer audio format is). It's okay as long as you keep them all well-behaved towards each others files. Occasionally when I start up QuickTime it complains that some of the file types it likes have been stolen, and would I like to reset them? Which implies that one of the other two progams has been less polite in its thievery. But this isn't something that acually affects me! When I click on any of those five filetypes, the right thing happens, and that's all I care about.

Keeping them in line has improved in the year since I last really looked at it: they all have a concise list of file groups (MP3, CD, Windows Media) that you can select and unselect. Apple and RealPlayer let you specify in more depth, Windows Media doesn't.

I still hate RealPlayer because the first few versions of their product were infernally difficult to uninstall. Having worked on a product that requires tricky uninstallation since (and ours doesn't even register itself for file types), I should have more sympathy.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

how do I get quicktime pro? no full screen suxx

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 22 December 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

perhaps vlc will meet your needs?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 22 December 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

only if youre a crash fetishist, lol

― Yawn (Wintermute), Thursday, 22 December 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Cozen, I think you just need to pay for it. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 22 December 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

i would guess that uncle bittorrent could also hook you up...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 22 December 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

Or Limewire of course.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 23 December 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

you don't need to download anything else for QT pro, just a serial

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 23 December 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

okay try this

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 23 December 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

Cozen i've sent you an email, but if it's just full screen you want try:
http://www.macparc.ch/mirror/QT_Full_Screen/

― stet (stet), Friday, 23 December 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

real alternative plays everything

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 23 December 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

VLC is slow and buggy and feels... lightweight

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 23 December 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

I use VLC - never hangs, never fails to play a film. Between that and Gspot (tells me which codec I need) it works a charm. And it feels lightweight because it works by itself - you don't need to cinfgure anything, just load your file and away.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 23 December 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

I think I don't have enough RAM is the problem and always get error messages

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 23 December 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Not sure what people are saying about VLC, maybe you are using an unstable build?

It works fine for me in OS X and on Windows, and is great as all all in one solution as many codecs are already built in.

Having said that, on Windows, I much prefer 'Media Player Classic' (Not the Microsoft One) if I already have the codecs installed.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 23 December 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

So, I recommend Media Player Classic.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 23 December 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

What do you guys recommend for converting Quicktime movs to wmv for OS?

― alex in montreal, Saturday, 27 October 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

I think Super does just about everything.

― StanM, Saturday, 27 October 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

RealNetworks' Founder Rob Glaser Steps Down as CEO (and don't let the door hit you on the way out)

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:48 (sixteen years ago)

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