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Apple releases QuickTime 7 for Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther

Friday, April 29, 2005 · 8:53 am · 22 Comments

Apple has released QuickTime 7 for Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther.

QuickTime 7 for Panther includes H.264 support, live player resizing, improved playback controls zero-configuration streaming, surround sound with up to 24 channels of audio, and more.

The update is available via Software Update, or from Apple’s website here.

Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger comes with QuickTime 7 pre-installed. QuickTime 6 Pro users who wish to purchase QuickTime 7 Pro can do so for US$29.99. QuickTime 7 and QuickTime 7 Pro Windows versions are “coming soon.”

QuickTime Pro offers more than just “full screen” playback. It allows for editing, scripting, and much more. If you want to see larger movies on the cheap, turn on Zoom (Universal Access in System Preferences) and Command-Option-+ into the movie. Hey, it works!

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L1km1ør65

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 10:09 am · Reply

NOTE:

If you install this upgrade, you will LOSE your QT 6 PRO features!!!!!

You must purchase QT 7 PRO to regain that functionality.
ray

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 10:14 am · Reply

This tells me that Apple intends to make a big thing with the H264 codec. Video Store? Let’s hope so.
KillBill

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 10:19 am · Reply

So show me where I can see some H.264 content… The Movie trailer page has movies encoded in QT 5 content (Hitchicker’s Guide…) but I can find no H.264 content for demo purposes
gMan

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 10:20 am · Reply

Does anyone know if this supports aacPlus streams?
RT

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 10:24 am · Reply

It is absolutely RIDICULOUS that Apple insists on charging current Pro customers another $30 bucks just to KEEP Pro in QuickTime7.0. In fact, it’s also kind of crazy that with all the bundled software and revisions in Tiger, anyone buying it still needs to plunk down another $30 to be able to get BASIC functionality like full screen mode in QT.
C’mon Apple, get real (and I’m a big Apple fan!)…
Lord Schwärzung

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 10:37 am · Reply

QT Pro will fry your eggs.
Macaday

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 11:00 am · Reply

I agree. Its time Quicktime was bundled with OSX – even add on $5 and make everyone have it….
Bad Person

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 11:14 am · Reply

You’re absolutely right, RT. Thanks goodness for the ability to share the QT Pro activation code on the ‘net, eh?
Pickledmonkey

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 11:22 am · Reply

> So show me where I can see some H.264 content… The Movie trailer
> page has movies encoded in QT 5 content (Hitchicker’s Guide…) but I
> can find no H.264 content for demo purposes

And you probably wont until QT7 has been released for Windows.

Though if you’ve pre-ordered Tiger from the Apple online store you’ll supposed to get access to a Tiger Seminar sometime today. Since the requirements for it include QT7 i suspect it will be encoded in h.264.

If you want to encode some h.264 stuff yourself Handbrake can rip DVDs with that codec. QT7 plays back such content much more smoothly that VLC (due to Apple’s h.264 codec being optimised for the PPC i expect).
Less is More

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 12:07 pm · Reply

Greed — M/W: “truth.” $10-$15 upgrade would’ve been understandable, particularly when you consider the volume and the timing coinciding with Tiger.
g$

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 12:42 pm · Reply

This is the same thing that happened when QT went from 5 to 6. The registation code is tied to the major version number. I was pretty much expecting this…

Previous QT Pro users should have a reduced upgrade fee (if any at all), and only new QT Pro users would pay the full $30.
JadisOne

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 12:44 pm · Reply

I’ve never liked the fact that you have to pay full price for the pro upgrade when you are already a pro user. Heck, i’ve been paying that pro price since QT 3 or 4, I can’t remember.
Tom Strong

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 12:59 pm · Reply

Jeez, listen to you whiners! It’s only $30 for a major new revision. Apple didn’t promise you free products forever. This is the cost of a fucking tank of gas for fucks sake. You spend more on porn and Starbucks!
librium

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 1:08 pm · Reply

mmm pron and Starbucks
notatotalsucker

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 1:39 pm · Reply

Try this Applescript (yea, I knicked it from somewhere else, can’t remember where tho, sorry Mr. Author) Create an Applescript app using script editor, stick it on your desktop – there you go – FREE fullscreen.

Btw, there appears to be a bug in QT7 – video is frozen when you switch back to playing normal size from fullscreen. You just have to close/reopen video.

Also, I’ve commented out the rewind step – you may wish to uncomment that so it rewinds before playing fullscreen.

tell application “QuickTime Player”
activate

try
if not (exists movie 1) then error “Hey, I’m not a magician – no movies are open.”

stop every movie

– CHECK FOR THE CORRECT VERSION
set QT_version to (QuickTime version as string)
set player_version to (version as string)
if (QT_version is less than “5.0″) or (player_version is less than “5.0″) then
error “This script requires QuickTime 5.0 or greater.”
end if

– rewind movie 1
ignoring application responses
present movie 1 scale screen
end ignoring
on error error_message number error_number
if the error_number is not -128 then
beep
display dialog error_message buttons {”Cancel”} default button 1
end if
end try
end tell
mike

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 4:54 pm · Reply

Eh.. I guess I should also note that QT7 is gorgeous, try scaling windows and playing around with old mpegs.. BEAUTIFUL!!!
DavidO

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 5:00 pm · Reply

Some of us have had problems with this upgrade:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@463.p6ScaBXPQYO.2@.68ad9ed3

Apple has quickly posted a way to reinstall the old version:

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime652reinstallerformac.html
dean

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 7:00 pm · Reply

Uhm… Why can I no longer download QT files to my desktop w/o upgrading to Pro? Was this a function of 6.5?
dean

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 7:19 pm · Reply

oh, and 30 dollars here, 100 dollars there adds up. There is a limit to folks patience with Apple. Yeah, our alternatives are few. BUT all these little nit picky things add up. Remember when .Mac went to pay? Apple is not the do no wrong “alternative” to M$. They would and WILL do just what M$ does if given half a chance. My loyalty can be lost Apple. Hope yer listening.
melis

Friday, April 29, 2005 - 8:54 pm · Reply

You can always jusy use VLC to watch QT movies in full screen. You can even watch Windows format AVI movies. That’s what frustrates me, Apple doesn’t have integrated AVI compatability. VLC plays H.264 also, but it’s playbacl quality kinda sucks.