Lack of practical settings in Quicktime

Hi, viewing movies/video footage can be a bit of a lottery using Quicktime and amazingly this is true 'even' if referring to the same video file format let alone the countless other formats available.
Within one format, i.e. .mp4, .mkv, .avi, or other, etc. the source may have a setting that was overlooked or not changed beforehand and these can be:-
1. One of my .mp4 (H.264) 720 video clips from a holiday; when viewing you can clearly see exaggerated lines within many areas of the picture. Having previously viewed this in Final Cut Pro or DVD Studio Pro's timeline (one of those) I noticed that the problem disappeared when applying the de-interlace setting for viewing the playback in the viewer window on the 'fly' (no reprocessing, transcoding or rendering involved), this resulted in the picture being perfect! Yet frustratingly there's no such option within Quicktime.
2. Again, there's no option for correcting or at least adjusting the 'Aspect'! I have a different movie file at 720p, the quality is excellent but the aspect is slightly squashed making all circles elliptical (i.e. the included padding within the movie file needs reducing to stretch the picture vertically to make it in proportion.
3. Needs setting to correct the pixel type on the fly to either 'square' or 'rectangular'.
4. And finally. The subtitle option appears to never work. The Subtitle option within the Quicktime View options appears to be permanently shaded/ghosted-out leaving you never able to select or deselect it and often if the tick is shown (to confirm them as being set Off) does not correspond to some movie files that have subtitles still showing. I enabled Perian to try and help by setting it's 'Load external subtitles' to OFF, but this makes no difference at times, especially when some movie footage have subtitles contained within the same movie file as an internal track i.e. .mkv.
I'm not sure why Quicktime appears to be limited with regard to flexibility on the above issues and don't understand why there's not even a settings menu under the main menu quicktime tab. It can be a further hinderance to have to resort to either lengthy transcoding and tweaking, or installing another video viewer program, which is a shame because I would rather prefer the Quicktime's shell integration within Snow Leopard for things like quick-look (quick view).
Is there a deeply routed 'Quicktime - Settings' Menu within Snow Leopards operating system?
I couldn't see anything to this effect within the 'System Preferences' control panel.
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Is there a deeply routed 'Quicktime - Settings' Menu within Snow Leopards operating system?
No, the settings are located in/only apply to the QT 7 "Pro" Player app.
1) High Quality/Single Field/Deinterlace settings are located in the QT 7 "Pro" Properties window.
2) While QT X only uses the PAR encoded value to set the display aspect ratio, QT 7 "Pro" Properties window allows you to turn off the "Preserve Aspect Ratio" setting and re-scale the display to user desired display dimensions which can also translate to changes in the aspect ratio.
3) With regard to broadcast/DVD standards (DV/MPEG-2) compression formats, QT 7 and QT X are Square/rectangular pixel aware and automatically display using the correct "pixel aspect" dependent on the viewing device as long as the flag is not lost. (I.e., if flag is lost, the content defaults to "square" pixel display.) In a similar manner, both apps are aware of the size of the original encode matrix dimensions and the PAR display dimensions for user custom PAR values.
4) As to subtitles, I can't help you there as I do not use them and habitually remove them as part of my normal work flow.
Basically, QT X is a "new technology" media player in its infancy. While based on "old technology," QT 7.6.6 still has more user oriented features available—especially when upgraded for "Pro" capabilities/features use.

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