[How To Install Quicktime Player For Mac On My Desktop
Betty Neyhart
Can you install just the codecs? Apple has ended support for Windows users but the codecs are all I should need. I may even dump my i-phone service over this. It appears to me that Apple turned their back on all the windows users and forgot that we still purchase Apple products. That's a gross over-site in my opinion.
Sorry to be a bit late, but in the QuickTime installer, under the custom installation menu there is an option to prevent the QuickTime player from being installed, and an option to install only 'QuickTime Essentials', which should just include the codecs required. I fear that other replies to this forum are either trolls or don't understand the problem domain - even the latest replies are talking about needing a different way to play your files when clearly you have stated over and over again that your editing software lacks the codecs to work with certain QuickTime formats. I have the same issue with video output from a piece of desktop recording software, which Premiere refuses to import. I would recommend that you don't install the player itself again considering the massive security flaws it already presents, but the codecs in QuickTime Essentials should be fine. Alternatively there is QuickTime Alternative 3.2.2 which offers a standalone installer separate from Apple itself.
Thank You very much for your post with the youtube link, this was very helpful and informative important information! I do relate to you and agree! Apparently greed has taken over and good customer service with support has left the building these days. Not just with Apple but all others as well because camera and video equipment still uses this darn MOV file structure. I am also now having problems with it in the new VLC player, I can convert it using a video converter such as Any Video Converter but it is a pain to figure out which format will work best. Also to your point I should not have to go thru this to play a video from a camera that is not even a year old.
At this point we can only hope that Apple with other vendors using it get hurt from it and then maybe they will learn from this great error in judgement that they have done because of there greed. They are trying to force us to give up on our PC/Windows based systems in hopes that we will run out spending tons of money to purchase a Mac. If they think it will work guess again because as of now I will not ever get one, I want them to pay me back for every song, video, movie that I paid for and take back there I-Pod and I-Tunes that I had once enjoyed. I will no longer support any manufacture that still uses Quick Time or any of its related formats until they can give me something that will work universally on computers or at best have ones to work with PC users.
I see the MAC users who posted here in earlier posts are silent on this topic now. Some MAC users can come across as real snobs. They look past Apple's shortcomings and won't say anything negative even if it's true. Most don't even have the decency to acknowledge a Windows user taught them something.
You can pick up a Windows computer with just as much RAM, the fastest processor available with all the bells and whistles for about 50% less than a Mac. Don't get me wrong, 10 years ago Mac had a superior and cleaner looking operation system. Today, not so much. The world has caught up.
If you're into monopoly's then Mac is for you. It's true that Apple devices integrate better with mac computers in some cases. Duh! They also use Microsoft Office and several other Microsoft systems because Mac never developed anything better.
F. . Windows users are more likely to be aged between 25-45 ( averagely ) and Mac users are more likely to be between 18-25 years of age. There is another interesting thing about these two operating systems is that Mac users are more likely to live in Cities then Windows users. In other words, inexperienced KIDS are more likely to buy Macs.
G.Cost is the key factor in buying anything, because it is the return which people have to pay to the manufacture for its product. If you want a budget friendly market then Windows computer I mean PC is the best option for you. But if you have some extra money then you can also buy MAC. The main thing is that MAC will always cost you 100-1000$ more then PC for the same performance combination.
QuickTime for Windows is now a dead product. OS X development of QuickTime continues and is now at version 10.4. It offers many of the features only found in the previous Pro upgrade of the software. It even offers features previously only found in third party software like screen recording.
Adobe has worked extensively on removing dependencies on QuickTime in its professional video, audio and digital imaging applications and native decoding of many .mov formats is available today (including uncompressed, DV, IMX, MPEG2, XDCAM, h264, JPEG, DNxHD, DNxHR, AVCI and Cineform). Native export support is also possible for DV and Cineform in .mov wrappers.
Unfortunately, there are some codecs which remain dependent on QuickTime being installed on Windows, most notably Apple ProRes. We know how common this format is in many worfklows, and we continue to work hard to improve this situation, but have no estimated timeframe for native decode currently.
Other commonly used QuickTime formats which would be affected by the uninstallation of QuickTime include Animation (import and export), DNxHD/HR (export) as would workflows where growing QuickTime files are being used (although we strongly advise using MXF for this wherever possible).
There's Quicktime SDK for Windows, but any application that uses it needs quicktime runtime libraries to be installed on the system (SDK itself just has headers and library stubs, and not the actual DLLs).
If my application uses Quicktime, I'd like to install the necessary libraries with it's installer, thus not requiring user to install Quicktime separately. What I'm looking for is some sort of "quicktime redistributable".
As of now (quicktime 7.x), I can't find a way to do that. I could bundle whole quicktime installer (about 20 MiB), and launch it with MSI's silent/unattended flag. However, that way it has several side effects:
In my application, I'd use Quicktime to import images, movies and audio files in various formats. If there is no sane way to install Quicktime runtime without side effects (changed file associations, extra icons, ...), then I should be seriously looking at alternative solutions (e.g. FreeImage to load images, perhaps DirectShow for video/audio).
If you need to redistribute QuickTime, see QuickTime Licensing for details. You're not allowed to redistribute any of the QuickTime libraries without a written agreement with Apple. Many CD-replication companies will actually request proof of this agreement before printing large numbers of CDs.
Your best bet, AFAIK, is to use the full QuickTime installer (all 20MB of it), and have your main installer run it with a "silent" flag. That, at least, will allow your users to install QuickTime without a half-dozen dialogs (and without those annoying pictures of surfers in bikinis). The people at Apple's licensing division seemed to think that using the "silent" flag was acceptable, at least when we consulted them.
One warning: If the user already has an older version of QuickTime 6 Pro (or earlier) installed, then installing QuickTime 7 silently will nuke their QuickTime Pro registration and they'll have to repurchase it. We actually detect this situation in our installer and display a warning during the installation process, much like Apple does.
When MOV videos from my wife's iPhone download to our Dropbox desktop app, we can't view them. The audio transfers but there is no video with it (black screen only). I do not have this issue with my Android phone, which transfers as a MP4 file.
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Unless you identify the correct codec and install it yourself, the video will not play properly in Quicktime or the Windows players. VLC has most of the popular codecs built-in, which is why it can play the video.
And there's your problem... iOS 11. But before we get into why, remember that where video is concerned, the file extension (.mov, .mpg, etc.) means very little. That's just a container file for the encoded video within. In order to play that encoded video, you need a player that not only recognizes the file type (remember, just a container) but also a proper CODEC installed that is capable of decoding the video content within the container.
Prior to iOS 11, the CODEC used by Apple was H.264/MPEG-4. This was (is?) the most popular video format, widely supported by almost all media applications and many hardware devices. Windows Media Player, Quicktime, etc., all supported it out of the box. I'm betting that your iPad hasn't been updated to iOS 11 yet, and this is why videos from it continue to work; they're H.264 videos in a .MOV container.
With iOS 11, Apple is now using HEVC, or High Efficiency Video Coding. HEVC videos are still saved in a .MOV container, but the video within is encoded as H.265/MPEG-H. This new encoding requires that either your media player supports HEVC videos (most don't, as of this writing), or that you have a proper CODEC installed as well to handle the decoding.
If you have a Mac and are running one of the newest versions of macOS, this shouldn't be an issue as Apple has obviously included support for their own filetypes, but other operating systems or older versions of macOS/OS X will require updated players and CODECs. VLC, in my opinion one of the best media players available, supports these new video files.
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