CNET Editors' review
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.
Version 7.4.1.14 includes unspecified updates.
What's new in this version: Version 7.4.1.14 includes unspecified updates.
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All versions:
3.0 starsout of 655 votes
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Current version:
3.1 starsout of 85 votes
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"apple tries to control you"
Version: QuickTime 7.4.1
Pros
video and audio
Cons
proprietary software wont let you edit so you have to get some lame free editor that leaves a watermark or convert file to mpeg or avi which is a pain. Pure crapola!
Summary
apple is suck!
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"the best product"
Version: QuickTime 7.4.1
Pros
fast ,reliable,easy and comnortable
Cons
nothing to write
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"good program"
Version: QuickTime 7.4.1
Pros
playing child movies
Cons
playing child movies
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"Its Rubbish,"
Version: QuickTime 7.4.1
Pros
Nothing its Rubbish But you require it for so files
I need it to play a file QuickTime Alternative & all other players cant Support & thats the only reason I downloaded it.Cons
Its SLuggish
Its Unstable
it adds its self to your start up.
It adds a updater to your startup
It tries to get you to install Itunes.
IN general it is a pain in the ass.Summary
Stay Away from this as long as possible,
I needed to Download it to use a Tutorial CD which uses Quicktime & cant use quicktime alternative.
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"not flexible enopugh if you are not a Mac fan"
Version: QuickTime 7.4.1
Pros
Use it only to watch Mac files.
Cons
nothing much really... feast to the eyes like the iP{hone, but little else compared to what is going on in the market. It has a couple of innovative features , but let's checjk on that again in a couple of weeks when the competition has catched up.
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"crap, crap, crap pure crap"
Version: QuickTime 7.4.1
Pros
none, it sucks so bad
Cons
screws up my pc and gives me blue screen of death. always nagging for upgrade, might as well get gom player
TOTAL BULLSH*TSummary
dont get it, total crap and bull. not good at all.
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"Once again, Apple did only half of the job."
Version: QuickTime 7.4.1
Pros
Quicktime can play H.264 video, and AAC audio... sort of.
Cons
Quicktime still doesn't utilize Hardware Video Overlay when playing videos, and still doesn't support HE-AAC.
Summary
Yes, Quicktime DOES support H.264 video, but NO, it does NOT utilize Hardware Video Overlay when playing the video. The picture would be worth watching if it did. Compare how H.264 video looks between Quicktime and GOM Player, and you'll never go back to Quicktime.
Yes, Quicktime DOES support LC-AAC Audio, but NO, it does NOT support HE-AAC. If you heard how good HE-AAC sounds on Winamp (even at extremely low bitrates), you'll never go back to Quicktime.
Over the years, I've become tired of Quicktime being an example of Apple getting the job only half done. -
"its usefull,just that. nothig spectacular"
Version: QuickTime 7.4.1
Pros
even when is not the most popular software,u can use it to run a lot of files and its free
Cons
you can run lots of files with it,but all related with apple. that in fact restrict the use of the software because every other manufacturer uses its own platform
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"kk avg it works nt that good"
Version: QuickTime 7.4.1
Pros
not reaaly good
Cons
over all avg
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"A necessary piece of junk software."
Version: QuickTime 7.4.1
Pros
None...unless..nope...none!
Cons
Bothersome. Annoying.
Summary
If I could do without it, I'd un-install right now
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