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by **Antony** » Thu 05 Oct, 2006 9:05 pm

I did change the writing from "recommended" to "required". I know what I wrote, and what I changed.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Thu 05 Oct, 2006 9:06 pm

We're talking about the button, not what you wrote.

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by **beanboy89** » Thu 05 Oct, 2006 9:55 pm

I would like to note that I can play Antony's embeded videos on the forum without problem on a system without QuickTime Player installed.

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by **Antony** » Thu 05 Oct, 2006 10:15 pm

beanboy89 wrote:I would like to note that I can play Antony's embeded videos on the forum without problem on a system without QuickTime Player installed.

So you have QuickTime plug-in installed, and access to QuickTime's preference setting... but not the QuickTime Player?

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by **Mandrake** » Thu 05 Oct, 2006 10:31 pm

Antony wrote:So you have QuickTime plug-in installed, and access to QuickTime's preference setting... but not the QuickTime Player?

QuickTime Alternative lets you do that, yes.

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by **Antony** » Sat 07 Oct, 2006 10:22 am

QuickTime Alternative may not be a legitimate product.

From the description given in Wikipedia,

QuickTime Alternative uses codecs taken from QuickTime 7 Pro. As such, its legitimacy has come into question as neither the codec package is a licensed Apple product, nor is this specific version of QuickTime available free of charge.

It says QuickTime Alternative stole (in plain words) codecs from QuickTime 7 Pro.

Back to the original issue, "QuickTime 7 required" icon was correct from the beginning. There's no point to say "QuickTime or QuickTime Alternative is required".

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by **Don_HH2K** » Sat 07 Oct, 2006 10:39 am

It's legal if you only use the .mov/.mp4 demultiplexer, and not the codecs themselves. (I use the ffdshow codecs with the QTA splitter.)

Antony wrote:Back to the original issue, "QuickTime 7 required" icon was correct from the beginning. There's no point to say "QuickTime or QuickTime Alternative is required".

No, it worked fine in WMP when you first posted it, that is, before embedding the video to call the QuickTime plugin.

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QuickTime "required" button.

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