Blackmagic RT Extreme question

Hi
I have a question about blackmagic video card software.
In this software is an "Enable Legacy QT playback" option in bottom right corner. I don't know why but I have no possibilitie to choose that. What shuold I do to have a chance to choose it.
thank's

According to Blackmagic Support:
The "Enable Legacy QT Playback" option relied upon the use of Blackmagic codecs. In the DeckLink 5.0 drivers, we have largely eliminated the Blackmagic codecs and adopted the Apple uncompressed codecs as Apple have requested that we do this for simplicities sake. One of the side effects of this is that the "Enable Legacy QT Playback" option cannot be used. However, we're examining options to see if we can make this work again so we haven't removed it from the interface. If we can't find a way to make it work, we will remove it but we haven't given up yet
Does that answer your question?
Patrick

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