Why an 'iPod killer' will never kill the iPod

Re:Why an 'iPod killer' will never kill the iPod by DarkShikari on Thursday November 13, 2008 @03:59AM (#362884)

Quicktime is worse than slow--its not even standards compliant, and most ordinary H.264 video will not play back on it properly (and that subset seems to change on every release).

From an actually-working standpoint, its even worse. I had to install Quicktime a while back on Windows to convert some weird-format Quicktime YUV files to something usable--it instacrashed upon trying to convert it. After reinstalling a few times it worked, but it took over 2 hours to start the conversion. This was a conversion from raw YUV to raw BMP. Oh, and then it took about 2 days to do the conversion for a single film. Seriously, folks.

I've constantly heard its much better under OS X; but at least my experience on Windows says its not merely bad, but the single worst media player I have ever used (yes, worse than Real.)

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Re:Why an 'iPod killer' will never kill the iPod by electromagnetic on Thursday November 13, 2008 @11:12AM (#363166)

My brother switched to Mac a while ago, and pretty much the first thing he commented on as the major difference was that he could actually use quicktime.

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Re:Why an 'iPod killer' will never kill the iPod by unalone on Thursday November 13, 2008 @12:55PM (#363310)

I'm on a Mac right now, and this is absolutely correct. QuickTime handles nearly everything once you have Perian installed. It means that suddenly you have a capable mini-player for watching nearly anything. And it's very smooth, too: it has a bunch of nifty little features that I'm sure the Windows version doesn't have.

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