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More => Old Versions => Media Jukebox => Topic started by: kain on March 31, 2002, 10:02:52 pm

Title: cannot play quicktime files?
Post by: kain on March 31, 2002, 10:02:52 pm

just purchased 7.2 and it cannot play quicktime files (.mov) it just keep showing a message saying it is looking for an update with realplayer. can anyone help?
kain

Title: RE:cannot play quicktime files?
Post by: Doof on April 01, 2002, 05:05:26 am

Media Jukebox uses Windows Media Player and RealPlayer for video playback. WMP used to support Quicktime, and so MJ was able to play Quicktime files. WMP has since ceased to support Quicktime (newer formats - I think it still plays older Quicktime files) and so MJ has lost Quicktime support as well. I've been trying to convince the powers that be to build in Quicktime support using Apple's libraries so that we can have Quicktime support back (and keep it). Hopefully if enough people want this, they'll decide to put it in.

Title: RE:cannot play quicktime files?
Post by: sekim on April 01, 2002, 06:19:48 am

Doof

Quicktime is an excellent format. Unfortunately most web sites I have visited use that Real format. I installed it once, ( Real ), to view a how to video on one of my favorite sites and it tried to take over every type of media file on my system. Needless to say it is no longer present. It would be nice if MJ could incorporate this.

Title: RE:cannot play quicktime files?
Post by: Doof on April 01, 2002, 06:38:29 am

Plus Real and WMV look like crap compared to Quicktime.

Title: RE:cannot play quicktime files?
Post by: zevele1 on April 01, 2002, 06:52:43 am

Yes!Yes!Yes we want a Quicktime pluging.......please

Title: RE:cannot play quicktime files?
Post by: kain on April 01, 2002, 11:53:45 pm

thank you for your responses.
i thought i installed it wrong and was going to reinstall it.

Title: RE:cannot play quicktime files?
Post by: Nikolay on April 02, 2002, 04:56:03 am

Well,

I just took a look at the SDK provided by Apple. I don't want to exadurate things but it looks extremely hard to implement the support. We will have to spend couple of weeks just on that.

So for now the answer is no.

Maybe somebody wants to create COM control which can display Quicktime?

Nikolay

Title: RE:cannot play quicktime files?
Post by: Doof on April 02, 2002, 05:36:30 am

Somebody's already done it, apparently.

http://www.skylark.ie/skylight/

Not sure what the details would be in regards to using this in MJ, but it's worth checking out, no?

Title: RE:cannot play quicktime files?
Post by: Nikolay on April 02, 2002, 06:24:35 am

Version 9?

Title: RE:cannot play quicktime files?
Post by: Doof on April 02, 2002, 06:43:49 am

Are we negotiating?

8.1?

Title: RE:cannot play quicktime files?
Post by: zevele1 on April 02, 2002, 10:10:21 am

Doof
I have a program for set Windows.You can uninstall system restore,movie maker and windowsmediaplayer
They say to install WMPlayer 6.2 instead
In this case can you play all Quick streams?
Do you lost the Windows 8 codex for streaming?
Last,do you need to have WindowsMediaplayer to be able to play it on MediaJukebox?I mean to play streams