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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP SP 2
- Date added: September 09, 2009
- Total Downloads: 23,126,327
- Downloads last week: 25,703
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 536 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
After 10 years and with millions of users worldwide, Apple's QuickTime player still provides one of the best solutions for digital media. Whether you're watching streaming movie trailers online or diving headlong into QuickTime as a creation platform, you'll find little to quibble about in this veteran player.
Its few quirks are quickly offset by the elegant Apple interface and the top-notch audio/video playback quality. QuickTime 7 comes in two varieties. The free standard player handles popular audio, graphic, and video formats, including the much-ballyhooed H.264 and MPEG-4. Also, for $29.95, you can upgrade to the content-creation-friendly Pro version, which adds features such as full-screen playback, easy editing, H.264/MPEG-4 production, and the ability to save movies from the Web.
MPEG-2 support is available, but at an additional cost of $19.95.High-definition content looks impressive with the new H.264 codec, but hardly better than with similar offerings from Microsoft. The stylish transport controls and the friendly layout work well. Inclusion of the autoupdate and automatic-network-detection features make getting started and staying current easy.
Overall, QuickTime 7 continues to be a must-have for anyone surfing the Web or looking to experience the best in digital media.
Publisher's description
From Apple :Just launch QuickTime Player, and there's no telling where you're likely to land. The Player may whisk you to the Moon or perhaps to an exotic location on this planet. Take you on a virtual field trip to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Or treat you to the latest news, movie trailers, music videos, HBO series or PBS specials. That's because QuickTime 7 Player takes advantage of the latest video compression technology. It's called H.264, and it's an important new industry standard that's quickly garnered widespread support. Chosen as the industry-standard codec for 3GPP (mobile multimedia), MPEG-4 HD-DVD and Blu-ray, H.264 represents the next generation of video for everything from mobile multimedia to high-definition playback. H.264 icon.
What's new in this version:
Version 7.6.4 includes changes that increase reliability, improve compatibility and enhance security.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.9 stars out of 536 votes
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Version: Apple QuickTime 7.6.4
"doesn't install correctly in Windows Vista"
Pros: tried installing it several times without success
Cons: tried installing it several times without success
Summary: tried installing it several times without success
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Version: Apple QuickTime 7.6.4
"A necessity, however uncomfortably"
Pros: it automatically plays stuff recorded with it
Cons: lots of updates take time for downloading
Summary: eehh...
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Version: Apple QuickTime 7.6.4
Pros: Easy to Locate--when I need it...
Cons: "only allowed--250 Characters"... so I'll Hold off on this one...
Summary: Not at this time...to allow for more Testing.......
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Version: Apple QuickTime 7.6.4
"Can't play VOB and FLV files"
Pros: Nothing, I don't wanna try it anymore.
Cons: Can't play VOB, FLV, and SWF files. Even GOM is better than this one.
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Version: Apple QuickTime 7.6.4
"CONFLICTS WITH SEVERAL PROGRAMS"
Pros: Intuitive interface in iTunes 9.0 which requires QuickTime 7.6.4 to operate.
Cons: Documented conflict issues with several windows (not sure about MacOS) programs such as Movavi, MediaMonkey and Nero.
Summary: It crashes my Movavi VideoSuite 7.0. I removed 7.6.4 and loaded 7.6.2 and the problem went away. Unfortunately iTunes 9 needs 7.6.4 to run. The other problem here is as soon as you upgrade to iTunes 9 you cannot roll back as it "updates" your exi... read more >>
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