Very Short Review of Quicktime 7 for Windows

[Soopafresh]

Apple has released a preview of their Quicktime v7 for Windows. I had tried to play Apple's h264 hidef video samples with Mplayer for the past few weeks, but the image suffered from tearing on the bottom of the screen.

Well, the new version seems to work quite nicely. Interestingly, Quicktime 7 installed itself into my Quicktime Alternative directory. The free version of the player doesn't permit full screen playback, but Media Player Classic ran downloaded 720p h264 clips like a champ, and in full screen mode.

Yes, the quality is pretty amazing for the file size. I still get that pastel greasy look on some fast action scenes (I think it is h264's deblocking filter that does this), but overall it really kicks @ss.

[celtic_druid]

mplayer has been working fine here (at least since the 8th of last month) for some time now. Perhaps you are using too old a compile.

From what I hear libavcodec (even via ffdshow) is faster than QuickTime when it comes to AVC decoding.

[Soopafresh]

YMMV, in your case for the better. BTW, thanks for your awesome builds, Celt. Looking forward to that version of Mencoder with High Profile 264 encoding.

[celtic_druid]

I already put up some builds sync'd to x264 r252 (8x8dct). I set them to compile last night, however I didn't have time to packed and put all of them up. The P4 build did go up, it just doesn't look like it has been mirrored yet.