Quicktime Pro to Media Player?

Does anyone know if Quicktime Pro will convert my Quicktime creations to play on Windows Media Player? I'm the only Mac user in the building and can't get these people to download Quicktime for Windows(that would be too easy of a solution). / joe
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.2) iPod Video

QT Pro cannot by itself do such conversion to .wmv format but plug-ins are available here for the export:
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_upgrades.htm
The PC version (but not the Mac version) of WMP will also play avi and mpeg-1 files if you are able to do those conversions. QT Pro as is can convert to avi files with Cinepak encoding but you may not be very happy with the results.

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Converting quicktime to Windows media player

Hi
Does anyone know if there is a way to convert quicktime to windows media player. I need to run both files on a web site. I am on a macintosh so let me know if there is a way

I am puzzled how you could have exported anything if you don't already have QT Pro, unless you used some third-party encoding program. As far as Cinepak goes, you must keep in mind that it is an almost ancient codec and lacks the superior quality of many newer codecs at low datarates. However, assuming your source file is high quality, you can try a 320x240 Cinepak avi using 30 FPS, a Keyframe interval of 60 and a datarate of 180Kbytes a sec. Those are the settings enabled for the 2X CD encoding preset in QT6. That will take the file size up to about 10 megs per minute, if that is acceptable to you. While it will not be equal to H264 or Mpeg-4 it would not look terrible.
To answer the question about Pro doing better, it is not really an issue. If you have an encoder program that can set the parameters I mention above, it will look just as good as the file that QT Pro would export using the same settings.

Can't set Quicktime as default media player

I have Quicktime Pro 7.1.3 on Windows XP Pro (SP2)
When I insert a DVD movie to play...the dialogue box for me to choose an application only has Windows Media Player. I can use Quicktime to watch the movie. Also, I can't even set Quicktime as my default media player under "Start->Set Program Access and Defaults->Custom"
There isn't an option for me to set Quicktime as my default player anywhere. I've tried setting the preferences in Quicktime to recognize those file types but still nothing. I know that Quicktime is installed correctly because I can use it to watch .mov files and watch Quicktime content on the web.
Any suggestions as to how I can get Quicktime to be my default media player or watch a movie using QT?
PC Windows XP Pro

QuickTime Player is not licensed for MPEG-2 playback (the format found on DVD's). It will never be able to view "Hollywood" DVD's because those contain CSS (encryption).

BIG QUESTION/ QuickTime or WIndows Media Player

Tomorrow morning i need to make a recommendation as to what product to go with for handling all web based video content. Stuff like streaming educational videos to live press feeds. Basically It's a no brainer for me, I say quicktime, but this would mean a complete overhaul off their network, which is fairly new. So the question is, what would be the definitive reason to go with Quicktime and what does it offer the WMP doesn't.
This will have an effect on a large amount of people that use windows based PC's. So Quicktime will be a hard sell, but I believe its the way our industry is going and has gone.
Any advise at all would be greatly appreciated. I have studied all I can and just need to hear from people who actually use these products.
Thank you..
G4 Dual 1.25 2 GB RAM, Mac Pro Dual 3.66 5 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)

QuickTime is really a no-brainer.
Start on the content creation side: EVERY professional media production tool I can think of (well, except for those intended to author Flash...) supports QuickTime natively, most actually use the QuickTime frameworks internally. In my own shop, we use mostly Avid Xpress Pro systems, and every one of them can generate a beautiful QuickTime movie with very little trouble, but about half of the systems will obstinately refuse to export a watchable Windows Media file.
For the content itself, QuickTime provides a scalable multimedia architecture that can easily integrate into just about anything you want. QuickTime Streaming Server and QuickTime Broadcaster are perfectly capable streaming products, and if you don't want to invest in a MacOS server, you can run the Darwin Streaming Server instead; I believe we're running it on a Solaris-based machine here. Best of all, the streaming tools are free.
Are you into custom presentation and Web delivery? QuickTime is the only architecture I can think of that allows you to embed a custom player *into the movie itself*. Do you have special features you wish to include? Once I visited a web page where they used a JavaScript player, an ActiveX control, Windows Media Player, and a ton of JavaScript to provide multi-lingual subtitles for a news videotape. Had they chosen to use QuickTime instead, the text tracks and alternate audio tracks could have been embedded into the movie and some very simple JavaScript controls could have been used to control the QuickTime plug-in. Quite simply, if your needs extend *at all* beyond the most basic problems of presenting audio and video files, QuickTime has the technical capabilities that *no other multimedia platform* can provide. Yes, you can stream or serve any kind of video file. But if you want to go beyond that, you need QuickTime.
Finally, it's worth mentioning that QuickTime, unlike Windows Media, is truly a multiple-platform solution. It stops short of being totally platform-independent, but as a cross-platform architecture it again far surpasses Windows Media, in that the entire QuickTime architecture is available in the freely downloadable QuickTime Player for Windows. By comparison, the MacOS version of Windows Media Player is buggy, incomplete, slow, and was abandoned by Microsoft about four years ago. One may argue that QuickTime is not installed by default on Windows machines (so what? Windows Media Player is not installed by default on Apples, either!), but the market strength of Apple's iPod product line has largely taken care of that problem. Apple offers a generous distribution license for QuickTime, and at least when you install QuickTime on a Windows machine you get full QuickTime functionality.
In my opinion, the decision is still a no-brainer. QuickTime is the obvious choice for multimedia delivery.
Caveat: Do you expect any other opinion on Apple's QuickTime discussion board? Still, I think the case is pretty clear.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

In need of a flash/html5/quicktime audio/video media player for a website

Hello everybody,
I'm looking to get some kind of audio/video media player for a website. I would like it to be customizable, and also most likely read a play list from some kind of text file or xml file.
Normally, I would look for some kind of flash media player, but recently the site might be read from Apple mobile devices also, which of course not flash which might be a problem, so I'm also looking into other options such as some kind of QuickTime media player web application or even html5 player.
I do not personally know how to code in flash or HTML 5, so I would be willing to hire someone to help out.
Is HTML 5 for long enough that it would play on most current browsers? I would imagine that HTML 5 might not work on older browsers–is this correct?
I don't know of any QuickTime media players - any links to get me started?
Does anyone know some solutions to this flash / apple issue?

Looks like you are getting a very good lesson in why Flash is the best choice for a Web media player.... plentilful, easily customizable, and is a "right now" solution. Good luck on getting your viewers to download and install the codex need to play an Ogg video!
To add the extra accessabilty for the iPhone etc, use swfobject to provide an alternative video file type... the .mov
Here is an example of a Flash video that plays on the iPhone (well sort of..):
http://www.cidigitalmedia.com/tutorials/qt/play_qt.html
Using swfobject for Flash detection, if the Web browser has the Flash plugin, the Flash .flv video is displayed, if not, the QT, .mov version is displayed.
View the source code for more exact details.
If the Web browser does not have the Flash plugin, alternate content is displayed, which in this case happens to be a QT player, which displays a .mov video. In this case it's just a single video. Now maybe you have a QT player with playlist... but let me tell you.. they are a lot rarer than Flash media players with playlists, xml playlist, etc.... Strong case for Flash here..
But your alt content could just as easily hold a QT media player (with playlist) if such an animal exists.
Info on swfobject:
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

WVC80N - AVI recorded files cannot be viewed in Quicktime or Windows Media Player

I have tried on two seperate PCs and the AVI files will not load. I have inspected the AVI files to be ISO MPEG-4 Video V1 standard and therefore should be able to be played by Windows Media Player and Quicktime but they both complain they cannot be played. Anyone else ran into this? I should have the specific codecs by default. The error message from quicktime is that there is required software needed to play this file and I get redirected to a generic page of possible plug ins. Windows Media player gives me a generic error with a link to some random troubleshooting steps that dont apply.
As a side note Nero Showtime can open the file and play it...
Message Edited by JKru on 12-10-2009 09:33 PM

To Download VLC Software, Go to http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ and download and Install the VLC Media Player on your computer. Once the Installation is completed then you will be able to play the Video Files using VLC Player.

Quicktime vs. windows media player

i am using my friend's old macbook from 2006 and i noticed that watching videos on quicktime is not as good as windows media player was in my 2002 G4. with quicktime i cannot get full screen, and i have to wait a while for the video to download after the file is already downloaded to my desktop. i tried to xfer windows media player from my old computer with a thumb drive but didnt work. what video player can i download that will allow me to watch on full screen and not have to wait for download after i download the file to my desktop. and once i download this program how do i make it my default video player?

what video player can i download that will allow me to watch on full screen and not have to wait for download after i download the file to my desktop.
Flip4Mac & VLC
Quicktime/View - select the screen size you want.
QT Full Screen Mode Widget.
how do i make it my default video player?
Highlight the video file/File/Get Info
In the Get Info window, scroll down to "Open with:"
Select the player you want to open the music file.
Click the "Change All..." button if you want to "Use this application to open all documents like this.”
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Quicktime and windows media player question??

i have sent a quicktime file of a spot i did for a client, they like it and have uploaded it to their website, but they are getting some that say they can not view it because they only use windows media player, i know this maybe a stupid question but how can i send them a copy they can use in media player so they have both?? thanks for you help!!!

you can buy and use the WMV Studio windows media export components from Flip4Mac which wil allow you to export to a windows media format directly from FCP and other suitable QT compliant apps ...
or you can copy the file over onto your own quicktime enabled PC and use the free, and much faster, windows media encoder there.

Audio sync different between QuickTime and Windows Media Player

I've run into a new problem I've never encountered before. When playing a video on QuickTime on a Windows PC, the audio is in perfect sync. However, when I play the same QT video on Windows Media Player, the audio is out of sync by as much as three seconds. The Windows software is current. The source content is created using ProTools 10 on a Mac running Yosemite, from an original QT mp4 converted to a .mov via quicktime for import into ProTools. The output was a standard .mov. I also tried converting it to an mp4 via QT, but the result was the same.
This is a pretty alarming discovery as I now have to test any videos bounced from ProTools on a PC Windows Media Player to make sure someone doesn't view it this way, with the audio sync appearing incorrectly.
Anybody know why this happened? Or how to prevent it in the future?

you can buy and use the WMV Studio windows media export components from Flip4Mac which wil allow you to export to a windows media format directly from FCP and other suitable QT compliant apps ...
or you can copy the file over onto your own quicktime enabled PC and use the free, and much faster, windows media encoder there.

Software for converting quicktime to windows media player

I am having difficult converting a movie from Quicktime or even IMovie to a program that can be run on a Windows PC.

To convert to Windows Media Player (with .wmv extension), you will need one of the Paid versions of Flip4Mac.
Flip4Mac gives you the components you need. Use something like MPEG Streamclip to do the actual conversion.
If you just want to play it on a Windows PC, but don't care about Windows Media format, there are two ways to go.
1) Just use SHARE/EXPORT MOVIE in the size you want. On the PC, you need to install QuickTime Player for Windows.
2) You can also use SHARE/EXPORT USING QUICKTIME. Choose Movie to MPEG4. Choose h.264 as the codec. With this option, it should play on Windows without the need for QuickTime Player to be installed.
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Quicktime hijacks my media player

I download quicktime to use with my ipod and it somehow hijacks my system and plays downloaded movies without me wanting it too. I hate quicktime for not asking. I want my windows media player to be my primary player but can't find where the ((()))&^&& quicktime has overridden my preferences. Does anyone know.

QuickTime can't play Windows Media Player formats and vice versa.
Post a URL to a page you think should play with WMP but uses QuickTime.

HOW do I use Quicktime as default media player when I download songs??

When I download songs from the internet, what pops out is a blank screen with the words ("no video") in the middle. I hear the song but dont see anything else and I cant save the song. My wife runs the same system and when she downloads, quicktime comes out she can see the cursor and can save the music. Is there something wrong with my default settings?

Paolo, if you have a Macintosh as your profile indicates, try posting in the QuickTime for Mac forum. You'll be more likely to get help there than you will here in the QuickTime for Windows forum. When you repost, please state the version of QuickTime you have, the web browser you use, and whether you are using the free, playback-only version of QuickTime Player or you have QuickTime Pro. Posting an example URL to a typical web site from which you're trying to save a song will probably also be helpful.
Regards.

My quicktime and windows media player isnt playing sound anymore

quicktime has gone silent and my WMP says the codec isnt correct i have no idea how this works.

To The Apple Discussion Boards!
WMP is no longer supported by Microsoft. Try/use Flip4Mac instead.
If the above does not work, then please post back & supply your system info by clicking on the "My Settings" over here in the right column.------->
Also will need to know which version of QT you are using.
Thank you

Quicktime conversion to Windows media player

Hi
Does anyone know if there is a way to convert quicktime to windows media player. I need to run both files on a web site. I am on a macintosh so let me know if there is a way

You can use Flip4Mac Studio or WMV-9 Export Component.

Camera movies to quicktime player or windows media player

Digital movies play just fine on my camera, a NIkon Coolpix but once I import them to either quicktime or windows media player they do not play smoothly. Any ideas why or what I can do to correct this?

I have a HP Pavilion 554y computer with windows xp operating system, not a mac
Why are you asking this on an Apple forum then ??!
Either ask Nikon or try the Microsoft forum:
http://support-for-microsoft.techvedic.co.uk/

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