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Apple has released the final version of QuickTime 7 for Windows, QuickTime 7 is a multimedia player which is the foundation of many other industry software, & is required by many software like 3D Max, Adobe premiere & ACDsee, and it’s a complete multimedia powerhouse
The installer is 32 MB is size, a lot more then QuickTime 6.52, it is Windows Installer based, & unlike installation of version 6.52 which used to give an option of which components to install, this version installs everything in the installation directory, which by default is program files\QuickTime
Apple has adopted the iTunes like interface with QuickTime 7, which gives it a more Windows feeling, like the title bar & control buttons, although it is still not skinned by Windows blinds or Windows XP GDI
The main window, except for the layout everything is changed
Following the Preview 3 version, Apple has introduced a new sound recording feature to QuickTime, just like the one found on Mac QuickTime 7, U can select the format of saved audio, from 3 options
1) QuickTime Movie compressed
2) Uncompressed Audio
3) AAC Music
*img316.imageshack.us/img316/8555/qtaudrec4qn.th.jpg
Although Mac version also supports video recording in H.264 format directly with any Cam or their iSight web cam, such feature is still awaited in QuickTime 7 for Windows
Apple has introduced up to 24 channels audio with QuickTime 7, using their new revolutionary Core Audio technology, this feature is ported to Windows but only in a limited sense. To enable multi channel audio Open QuickTime Preference->Audio-> & in the sound out section configure it accordingly, select the number of speakers here & in the Windows speaker settings
Video playback is now handled by their Core Video technology which uses the power of your graphics card to calculate the video playback, this increases quality & performance greatly according to Apple; this is also not completely ported to Windows, as of now.
The most important introduction with QuickTime 7 is the native H.264 support, although for playing HD Contents you also need a pretty high end system, I can give you an example by the means that the Batman begins trailer, at 480p, as given at their HD Gallery, skips frames at a Pentium 4 2 GHz system with 256 MB RAM & even on a Athlon XP 2400+.
It seems Apple has optimized QuickTime, for hyper threading & dual core, as when playing the same video at a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz system with HT enabled, resulted in smooth playback, but again even at this system QuickTime skipped frames when I played the 115 MB, 720p HD video, although on my own Pentium 4 3.06 GHz with HT it played fine, so you better have a good system if U R thinking of even playing that much High resolution based content
The export function is now working properly, U can convert from many formats to many formats, but for some reason, QuickTime still doesn’t plays DivX contents, & if U have a mpeg-1 Muxed file, like those found on VCDs or recording of TV, it does not processes the Audio, & skips the track at all
Exporting to H.264 or any other format uses all the cores or threads available to your CPU, although not as fast as Nero Recode in encoding but it’s about 70% the speed of Recode right now
*img316.imageshack.us/img316/3135/export2wp.th.jpg
The streaming just got better, even at 56 kbps the quality of streaming video is better then Real media or Windows Media, although this is subjective, version 7 also supports “Instant on� like version 6.
This time, it caches the file to your system for future playback even if u r offline, simply right click on the movie being played on the webpage, select “Save as source� give it a name & .mov extension, now U can simply play the file again anytime, even if U R offline, the amount of movie already played is in your cache & U can start just from where U left, great for Dial–Up users
To make the installation a little less fatty, simply go to c:\program files\QuickTime\ or where ever U have installed the player, inside U will see many folders with the name as
abc.resources
these are the resource files QuickTime uses to play contents, but it contains different language files, for Dutch or Japanese language usage, if U R using an English version of Windows & QuickTime, U can safely delete all the folders in each xxx.resource folder other then en.lproj folder, this will reduce the size of QuickTime 7 by 21 MB
QuickTime Homepage
Quicktime HD gallery
To download the Final QuickTime standalone installer, check below the megaupload link, this is a compressed version of original 32 MB QuickTime 7 installer, good for dial up users, as it is only 19 MB compared to 32 MB, with no change in file, just a recompression in 7z format, U can use WinRAR or 7 zip file manager or Power Archiver to open it
The installer is 32 MB is size, a lot more then QuickTime 6.52, it is Windows Installer based, & unlike installation of version 6.52 which used to give an option of which components to install, this version installs everything in the installation directory, which by default is program files\QuickTime
Apple has adopted the iTunes like interface with QuickTime 7, which gives it a more Windows feeling, like the title bar & control buttons, although it is still not skinned by Windows blinds or Windows XP GDI
The main window, except for the layout everything is changed
Following the Preview 3 version, Apple has introduced a new sound recording feature to QuickTime, just like the one found on Mac QuickTime 7, U can select the format of saved audio, from 3 options
1) QuickTime Movie compressed
2) Uncompressed Audio
3) AAC Music
*img316.imageshack.us/img316/8555/qtaudrec4qn.th.jpg
Although Mac version also supports video recording in H.264 format directly with any Cam or their iSight web cam, such feature is still awaited in QuickTime 7 for Windows
Apple has introduced up to 24 channels audio with QuickTime 7, using their new revolutionary Core Audio technology, this feature is ported to Windows but only in a limited sense. To enable multi channel audio Open QuickTime Preference->Audio-> & in the sound out section configure it accordingly, select the number of speakers here & in the Windows speaker settings
Video playback is now handled by their Core Video technology which uses the power of your graphics card to calculate the video playback, this increases quality & performance greatly according to Apple; this is also not completely ported to Windows, as of now.
The most important introduction with QuickTime 7 is the native H.264 support, although for playing HD Contents you also need a pretty high end system, I can give you an example by the means that the Batman begins trailer, at 480p, as given at their HD Gallery, skips frames at a Pentium 4 2 GHz system with 256 MB RAM & even on a Athlon XP 2400+.
It seems Apple has optimized QuickTime, for hyper threading & dual core, as when playing the same video at a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz system with HT enabled, resulted in smooth playback, but again even at this system QuickTime skipped frames when I played the 115 MB, 720p HD video, although on my own Pentium 4 3.06 GHz with HT it played fine, so you better have a good system if U R thinking of even playing that much High resolution based content
The export function is now working properly, U can convert from many formats to many formats, but for some reason, QuickTime still doesn’t plays DivX contents, & if U have a mpeg-1 Muxed file, like those found on VCDs or recording of TV, it does not processes the Audio, & skips the track at all
Exporting to H.264 or any other format uses all the cores or threads available to your CPU, although not as fast as Nero Recode in encoding but it’s about 70% the speed of Recode right now
*img316.imageshack.us/img316/3135/export2wp.th.jpg
The streaming just got better, even at 56 kbps the quality of streaming video is better then Real media or Windows Media, although this is subjective, version 7 also supports “Instant on� like version 6.
This time, it caches the file to your system for future playback even if u r offline, simply right click on the movie being played on the webpage, select “Save as source� give it a name & .mov extension, now U can simply play the file again anytime, even if U R offline, the amount of movie already played is in your cache & U can start just from where U left, great for Dial–Up users
To make the installation a little less fatty, simply go to c:\program files\QuickTime\ or where ever U have installed the player, inside U will see many folders with the name as
abc.resources
these are the resource files QuickTime uses to play contents, but it contains different language files, for Dutch or Japanese language usage, if U R using an English version of Windows & QuickTime, U can safely delete all the folders in each xxx.resource folder other then en.lproj folder, this will reduce the size of QuickTime 7 by 21 MB
QuickTime Homepage
Quicktime HD gallery
To download the Final QuickTime standalone installer, check below the megaupload link, this is a compressed version of original 32 MB QuickTime 7 installer, good for dial up users, as it is only 19 MB compared to 32 MB, with no change in file, just a recompression in 7z format, U can use WinRAR or 7 zip file manager or Power Archiver to open it
