Quick Time 7

[iPenguin]

Well... hmm. The sample H.264 movie trailers that Apple put up look really nice, but I can't seem to hear them... Anyone else having any problems with H.264 and no sound?

Edit: Actually, it seems that Quicktime 7 doesn't want to play any sound, for any of my movies, except for certain .mpg files... Grr... Is this happening to anyone else, or am I missing some preference file that I accidentally clicked or something?

[Lt Major Burns]

where can i get h.264 samplers?

[Captain Code]

Here's some high def H.264
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/

Should play ok on your G5. It stutters a bit for me on a 1.4GHz G4 but it's still pretty good.

[Lt Major Burns]

so far, after seeing 720i videos, i'm uninmpressed. not at apple, just at the format - it's not that much different from dvd. i want to see video with 4mpixel still camera like quality in the next 10 years at least

[Captain Code]

Well I take back the smooth resizing comment. It was smoother in Panther than it is now in Tiger.

[kainjow]

It was smooth for me for smaller movies, but for those HD ones by Apple, which are awesome (but take forever to download), the live resizing was a little choppy too.

[Krevinek]

so far, after seeing 720i videos, i'm uninmpressed. not at apple, just at the format - it's not that much different from dvd. i want to see video with 4mpixel still camera like quality in the next 10 years at least

2 things to consider:

MPEG-4 is a direct decendant of MPEG-2, so the encoding method of the same, just 'better'. So what you are seeing is similar quality as MPEG-2 in much smaller sizes. Plus, 4 mega-pixel is MUCH higher resolution than 720i, (I think 1024p is close, IIRC), so of course 720i isn't going to compare a 4 Mpixel still.

Since it is based on the same methods of encoding as MPEG-2, then it will have some of the same flaws in encoding as MPEG-2 (weaknesses in the same areas). However, with research in wavelet codecs, and a couple of experimental codecs being tinkered with, there is a good chance we can see more interesting codecs in the future.

[TommyWillB]

Not too happy about this. I had Quicktime Pro with 6 and now they want me to pay again for Quicktime Pro 7? Unacceptable.

This is not new or unexpected.

Apple did the same thing when you upgraded from QT5 to QT6... and I think even the time before than when going from 4 to 5.