QuickTime Alternative - legal status

Have a question about the QuickTime Alternative in the k-lite codec pack: when installing this one you get a Quicktime icon in the control panel (we are talking Windows here). Apparently some components of QuickTime Pro are included in this codec pack.
In the QuickTime Preferences screen that you get when clicking on the icon you can see QuickTime Pro being registered to the user "Apple" and a serial number.
Can anybody shine some light on the legal status of using this codec pack / QuickTime Alternative in a corporate environment? The websites for the k-lite and Apple give no answers, Google does not help either.
Thanks in advance.

I can give no definitive statement, but it appears that QuickTime Alternative is enveloping the actual Sorenson codec in a DirectShow wrapper. The developers of QTA do not appear to have a license for this distribution, so it would very probably be a copyright violation and hence illegal. Since the QTA project is based in eastern Europe, though, it's probably not been possible, or at least worthwhile, for Sorenson to try to get them shut down.
So I would agree with Kyn; the use of QuickTime Alternative in any business or educational environment is very risky legally. If it were me (and it is here at my university), I would avoid the use of QuickTime Alternative to avoid potential legal issues.

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kidimi
Glad that you finally sorted out what you were doing and discovered DV AVI.
In your particular situation Prism would serve your purposes of generating the DV AVI 4:3 since your footage is 640 x 480. However, for others with different footage, the free Prism shortcoming is that it cannot offer DV AVI widescreen 16:9; whereas MPEG Streamclip can do the job for 16:9 as well as 4:3.
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In post 2 of the following older thread, I detail the use of Prism (for 4:3) and MPEG Streamclip (for 4:3 and 16:9) to produce the DV AVI file.
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I have QT installed, I don't know if it's Pro or not...but it's a registered paid for version (I think version6).
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I would like to know if anyone here has heard of this program, and if so, have you tried it?
Also, if it's a good alternative to QT...and a person downloads it, should you uninstall the regular QT program?
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okay, I tried quite a few things and finally got quicktime and itunes working again. In case any one else encounters this problem here is what I did, at least the steps that fixed it.
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ITunes for Windows, QuickTime, and Apple Application Support

Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion.
*The relationship between iTunes for Windows and QuickTime for Windows*
Conceptually, you don't go too far wrong thinking of iTunes for Windows as a gigantic QuickTime for Windows plug-in. QuickTime for Windows provides the audio and video playback capabilities for iTunes for Windows, the codecs iTunes for Windows uses for importing and burning CDs, and so forth.
So, under normal circumstances, if you uninstall your QuickTime for Windows your iTunes for Windows will no longer launch. The exception is if you install a different application such as QuickTime Alternaltive, which also provides QuickTime playback capabilities. However, most such applications (QuickTime Alternative being a good example) are themselves built from actual QuickTime program files. So there's really no getting away from the requirement to have QuickTime for Windows componentry installed on your computer in order to get your iTunes for Windows to launch and run.
In addition to needing some QuickTime for Windows installed on the computer for iTunes for Windows, a given iTunes for Windows version will require *at mininum a particular version* of QuickTime for Windows to be installed on the computer in order for that iTunes for Windows version to run. For example, iTunes for Windows 5.0.0.35 requires at least a release version of QuickTime for Windows 7.0.2 to run correctly, iTunes for Windows 6.0.0.18 requires at least a QuickTime for Windows 7.0.3, and so on. The same applies for solutions involving other programs like QuickTime Alternative. An iTunes for Windows 6.0.0.18 would require an installed version of QuickTime Alternative to made from (at least) QuickTime for Windows 7.0.3 componentry in order for iTunes to run.
The most straightforward way to go about getting your iTunes for Windows launching again after you've uninstalled your QuickTime for Windows is simply to reinstall QuickTime for Windows. You can get the latest version of QuickTime for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 from the following download page at the Apple website. (Use the download link that doesn't mention iTunes.)
[Latest QuickTime for Windows version|http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download>
*The relationship between iTunes and Apple Application Support*
iTunes for Windows uses a number of the same program files as other Apple software for Windows (most notably, QuickTime for Windows and Safari for Windows). Starting with iTunes for Windows version 9.0.0, QuickTime for Windows version 7.6.4, and Safari for Windows 4.0.4, program files common to more than one of the programs have been stored in a single location: "Apple Application Support".
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[Latest iTunes for Windows version|http://www.apple.com/itunes/download>
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[Latest QuickTime for Windows version|http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download>
This is the 1st version of this tip. It was submitted on March 7, 2010 by b noir.
Do you want to provide feedback on this User Contributed Tip or contribute your own? If you have achieved Level 2 status, visit the User Tips Library Contributions forum for more information.

Let's try a standalone Apple Application Support install. It still might not install, but fingers crossed any error messages will give us a better idea of the underlying cause of the issue.
Download and save a copy of the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64setup.exe) installer file to your hard drive:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Download and install the free trial version of WinRAR:
http://www.rarlab.com/
Right-click the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64Setup.exe), and select "Extract to iTunesSetup" (or "Extract to iTunes64Setup"). WinRAR will expand the contents of the file into a folder called "iTunesSetup" (or "iTunes64Setup").
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QuickTime v7.55 (last one) on Windows XP Pro x64 SP1

Hi everyone !
I come to you with a triquy issue ...
Here is the problem :
I just bought an iPhone 3G, which requires iTunes 8 (at least) to be used on a computer. And with iTunes 8 comes QuickTime 7.5.
I knew there was some tricks to make 64bits Vista version of iTunes work on XP x64, and I tried them, but unfortunately, I always came up with the 2096 error, where iTunes can't launch QuickTime ...
I tried other way, by using for example QuickTime Alternative or Lite but still the same issue ...
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Please could you explain how minidumps are collected? All I did was run dxdiage.exe after one crash and I have saved the text output.
okay, if you're interested in trying an upgrade again, let's set up the PC to collect minidumps. then, if the blue screen hits you again, we can send through a minidump to the Apple engineers for a look.
To set up your machine to capture a minidump, right click on "My Computer", select "Properties", select the "Advanced" tab, select the "Startup and Recovery" Settings button, select "small memory dump" from the popup. When it crashes, look for the MiniDump file. It's usually in the folder "C:\WINDOWS\Minidump" and is called something like Mini<number>-<number>.dmp.
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When you uninstalled Quicktime, did you do the scorched earth version of the Quicktime uninstall -- where you uninstall, then run the Microsoft Installer Cleanup Utility and then manually search for Quicktime files (particularly in your system folder) and delete them?
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