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From: Jim on 14 Apr 2010 06:01 On 2010-04-14, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> True. But Safari seem to default to using the new Quicktime to display >> stuff, so you can't save any movie clips you find and like on the web. Or at >> least if you can then I don't know how. > > Ah, okay. > > I use Firefox rather than Safari, but that might be no different if > Quicktime X is set to be the default QT handler. Hmmm, good point. It might or it might not - I don't use Firefox so I can't say for sure, but I suspect you're right. > Have you tried using 'get info' on a QT extension file and set it to be > opened by QT7, and checked 'change all'? Or doesn't that work in the new > OS? It's still there but I haven't (and probably won't) try it. I suspect it wouldn't work though. > I used to use Misfox for this kind of thing but I don't suppose for a > second that it has survived as far as 10.6. But maybe there's a more up > to date equivalent? Unknown, sorry. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: R on 14 Apr 2010 06:02 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Seconded. You can't move the control bar out of the window, so it's *always* > blocking some part of the video. Plus, in Safari, you now can't save film > clips like you used to. I used to download the film trailers from apple.com > and watch them on my TV via XBox360/Rivet - no more. I'm not sure about this but... can you get the movies to open in an external (i.e., non-plugin) player? They're doing that for me for the Apple HD gallery, and saving is then possible, but I can't remember how I set it up.
From: R on 14 Apr 2010 06:02 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > From what I read here, it's strictly a work in progress. > > But with 10.6, don't they also bundle Ancient Quicktime 7? With which > the existing QT Pro registration code will work. In whch case there are > no *real* user problems. You can use Quicktime 7. But there's no way to get movies to open automatically in it. If you change the "Open with" application to Quicktime 7 that setting is, curiously, completely ignored. > Do Perian and Flip4mac still work okay? Perian is working for me.
From: Jochem Huhmann on 14 Apr 2010 06:03 Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> writes: > And whatever happened to metadata (hmmm, well, I suppose the extension > *is* metadata). OK - whatever happened to *proper* metadata? > > Is the extension now the only way to connect a file to an app? No, the only thing that does not work anymore is the Creator Code. That is, when you create a JPG in Photoshop and then doubleclick it in the Finder, it will open in whatever app you have configured to open JPGs and not always in PS. Read http://db.tidbits.com/article/10537 for details. Make sure to read the comments, too. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Jim on 14 Apr 2010 06:07
On 2010-04-14, R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> Seconded. You can't move the control bar out of the window, so it's *always* >> blocking some part of the video. Plus, in Safari, you now can't save film >> clips like you used to. I used to download the film trailers from apple.com >> and watch them on my TV via XBox360/Rivet - no more. > > I'm not sure about this but... can you get the movies to open in > an external (i.e., non-plugin) player? They're doing that for me > for the Apple HD gallery, and saving is then possible, but I can't > remember how I set it up. Interesting. I'll look into that. Thanks. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash. |