When I attempted to do so, the roadblocks started appearing. I was mistakenly told that a VRO file could be edited. Then, I attempted to find an editor - and it wasn't going well. Great! I struggled for hours trying to assist my youngest daughter who recorded some video for a school project. Which required uninstalling of Quicktime Alternative 1.81Īs someone previously said correctly - that one shouldn't criticize a program when the problem may be one's PC or set up -īut when setup and versions are as complicated as mine turned out to be - it is hard to say positive things about a program that one can't even install and get to work.Įven now I am not too sure why mine works at all. So I installed QuickTime Lite 3.2.2 over that. It is supposed to be essential to install Quicktime Alternative 1.81 first - which I did - but when I tried to open any. Installation can be tricky and I don't quite understand how mine works at all. Neither of the current versions 1.2 or 1.2.1beta2 work properly for me - they both eat up 100% CPU, so are very slow.īut the earlier 1.2b2 (or is it 1.1.9.2?) works just fine.

exe file it shows ver 1.1.9.2 - but the banner and download file both show 1.2b2). (when hovering the mouse pointer over the. However it took a lot for me to get a working version. Like this a lot - simple and fast to use - especially when saving back to same format - which only takes seconds, compared to several minutes for other editors (even when the saving format is exactly the same as the original).

(Hint: Right-click on the MPEG2 Codec installer from Apple, 'Show Package Contents', find the '' file, decompress it and you'll find the codec contained therein.)Īs for the luddites who decry the use of QuickTime, my response is: Get over it H264/AAC is mainstream (ever heard of Bluray?), is part of QuickTime, and the new H265 codec which will be coming down the pike for use next year will also be included in the QuickTime standard (which is not just Apple).įrankly, not including VLC (which has all codecs self-contained), the best way I can get reliable, lip-sync'd playback of videos on XP and Win7 PCs is to use QuickTime and H264-based media. Just install the codec manually in System/Library/Quicktime and forget the installer app provided by Squared5. I'm confident the beta glitches will be ironed out. Earlier versions have been an essential part of my 'conversion toolbox' and I see no reason why I'd want to exclude it. I'll chalk it up to this being a beta version. I find it working with other apps but MPEG Streamclip seems to have trouble playing the MPEG2 file (although it does seems to convert the file to H264/AAC in a. Seems to be an issue using the MPEG2 component from Apple.

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