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From: JF Mezei on 1 Nov 2009 22:51
With Quicktime 10, the control pane (pause, play, rewind etc) is placed
inside the movie area.

Is there a way to move this outside the movie area like on quicktime 7 ?

If not, is there a trick to make the OS open up quicktime 7
instead of 10 for any/all file types handled by quicktime ?

Woukld renaming Quicktime.App to Quicktime_bad.App and then duplicating
Quickltime 7.App to "Quicktime.App do the trick ? Or would that cause it
to fail next time Apple has an upgrade for Quicktime 10 ?
From: nospam on 1 Nov 2009 22:29
In article <009c69c6$0$27959$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote:

> With Quicktime 10, the control pane (pause, play, rewind etc) is placed
> inside the movie area.
>
> Is there a way to move this outside the movie area like on quicktime 7 ?

i don't think so but i don't use quicktime x.

> If not, is there a trick to make the OS open up quicktime 7
> instead of 10 for any/all file types handled by quicktime ?

get info on a file and in the open with panel pick whatever app you
want to use, then click change all.

> Woukld renaming Quicktime.App to Quicktime_bad.App and then duplicating
> Quickltime 7.App to "Quicktime.App do the trick ? Or would that cause it
> to fail next time Apple has an upgrade for Quicktime 10 ?

i doubt it will make a difference for which app opens unless you
compress it into a zip archive. however, updating will break since the
updater uses hard coded paths and if you move or rename something, it
will put the updated parts where it thinks they should be whether or
not there's anything actually there, which means you end up with a new
incomplete app and the untouched old one someplace else.
From: David Empson on 1 Nov 2009 23:31
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote:

> With Quicktime 10, the control pane (pause, play, rewind etc) is placed
> inside the movie area.
>
> Is there a way to move this outside the movie area like on quicktime 7 ?

No. If you like the old user interface, use QuickTime Player 7 instead.

Better still, send a feature request to Apple to complain about the user
interface. If enough of us do that, they might pay attention.

> If not, is there a trick to make the OS open up quicktime 7
> instead of 10 for any/all file types handled by quicktime ?

Should be easy enough, but I don't know what if any implications there
might be (e.g. QuickTime Player 7 might not be able to take advantage of
hardware acceleration when playing H.264 video, but I would have
expected that to be a lower level decision).

Find a file which currently opens QuickTime Player X when
double-clicked.

In Finder, do a Get Info on that file. Under the Open With heading,
choose QuickTime Player 7, then click the Change All button.

Repeat for any other files which open QuickTime Player X by default.

> Woukld renaming Quicktime.App to Quicktime_bad.App and then duplicating
> Quickltime 7.App to "Quicktime.App do the trick ? Or would that cause it
> to fail next time Apple has an upgrade for Quicktime 10 ?

Definitely a bad idea. You would stuff up any software updates.

Rule: don't move anything that Apple installed.

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David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
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