What is Digg?98 Comments
- buu2, on 10/12/2007, -7/+67Thanks a lot but its easier to just use vlc.
- pathy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31"Although most digg users are more advanced then this generic user, so they have."
That made me laugh. - HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Worse yet, I paid $1500 for my Apple laptop. It comes with Front Row, which can play movies fullscreen. It comes with iLife and iWork, so I can do all kinds of stuff with it!
But can I play a Quicktime movie fullscreen? Nope. That's another $20. How come Apple can bundle in all these programs and functionality, but can't manage to include a free QT Pro serial number? - sx86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17You don't have to compile anything to get this to work though. Its a script.
Nice find though econoar - smhill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"True, but many people still use Quicktime. Especially the "generic" Mac user who probably hasn't really even heard of VLC. Although most digg users are more advanced then this generic user, so they have."
That makes no sense. If they haven't heard of VLC, they probably aren't the type who is going to be down for whipping up AppleScripts.
Not only are there a handful of free apps that play full screen, you can easily do the same is with Automator (see link below). Writing an Applescript is probably the last way to do it. - brettmeister, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Or you could just use the zooming feature, which is built into OSX.
Ctrl+Scroll Button
Works great for youtube. - dscl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Instead make a droplet.. Now instead of opening a video then running the script just drag your video onto the droplet and let it do the opening and scaling in one step.
---
on open vid_name
tell application "QuickTime Player"
launch
activate
open vid_name
present front movie scale screen
end tell
quit
end open
--- - eric123abacus, on 10/12/2007, -9/+18or you could just get a serial for it.
- KissTheRing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Here is a quick, free, scriptless way to get quicktime to play full screen. Play it in iTunes, it uses quicktime in the background and it will let you go full screen.
- dAbReAkA, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9haha, that made my day ;)
can we expect a hack to enable stereo in the music player?! - monergism, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9You are right. When the calendar changes software should magically become free.
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I really wish Apple would stop charging for QT Pro. This is 2007 for goodness sake.
- dvflameartist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I can understand Apple charging $29.99 for the Export and editing functionality in Quicktime Pro... but for real... why would you leave the Full Screen option out of your media player?!
- magicmarc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5How many Dawn Fredettes are there on windows?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6dgh1973: You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
- DanielNielsen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I will just stick with a nice version of Quicktime pro : pirate edition.
- Jaymoon, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12I love Quicktime Alternative... And I hate Quicktime with a passion.
I would point out the hypocrisy about how Mac users don't mind proprietary formats used by a proprietary player while they complain about Windows trying to do just the same....
But I've got better things to do, so I won't. - Rodzirra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Now hook this script app up to a trigger in Quicksilver, and you'll have a hot key. It's groovy.
- smhill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Welcome to two years ago.
Who doesn't know this?
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050430024234333 - dmron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5In my mind, quicktime will always be a joke because of this ridiculous limitation. I mean, what the hell kind of video player doesn't allow you to play video full screen without paying money? Luckily on non-Macs (as someone else said) there are many other programs that WILL play quicktime movies, and will play them fullscreen. I use Media Player Classic on Windows and it kicks ass.
- Trat, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9I second that...
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6[sigh] I mean that in this day and age charging for full screen and export options is just silly. They don't need the cash _that_ badly.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5VLC is great for optical output and oddball formats, but for everything else QuickTime is much smoother, nicer and less buggy.
- sakabako, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Most Mac users have a higher standards for thier user interface than Windows or Linux people. VLC, although it plays everything, has an akward interface.
It is snobby, but I want a menu when I move the mouse and I need to be able to exit full screen without using the keyboard. - adstretch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4why is this being dug down? it takes the article you all just dugg a step further, and creates that "ease of use" that mac owners just love. (i'm one of those mac owners by the way)
- 3Den, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Have you checked out the latest VLC? IT feels pretty darn good, the floating controls are just like quicktime, and it now has quick menus for common aspect ratio corrections, cropping to aspect ratios, post-processing, etc.
sakebako: VLC, you get a floating controller when you move the mouse in fullscreen, and there is a right-click menu as well.
Also, you can enter/exit fullscreen by double clicking the video at any time. - SilentSpyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Jaymoon. I use Quicktime and WMP on Mac and Windows and Quicktime on Windows works better than WMP on Macs. That's why I hate WMP with a passion. Thank god for Flip4Mac.
- GUESShimself, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=605
just drag the file to the widget and it opens in full screen. - smhill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Because no one uses the quicktime player. It is just a rudimentary interface for playback. QTPro is for exporting and other advanced features. They don't expect people to pay the $30 to watch movies full screen. There are a ton of apps that do this already. Including iTunes
- monergism, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"should" = a right. Who determines the software license? The owner of the IP. You have no rights to what software "should" do.
- diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, I'd rather just enter the serial key for quicktime pro.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just use QTAmateur.
http://www.mikeash.com/?page=software/qtamateur/index.html
It handles encoding and stuff too, bringing many of the pro features to non-pros. - m99stump, on 07/29/2008, -14/+16VLC for Mac is generally pretty mediocre. Sure it plays nearly all the files, but it just doesn't "feel" right to me.
I'd much rather get Niceplayer (http://niceplayer.sourceforge.net/) with the Perian codec pack (http://perian.org/) and AC3 Codec (http://trac.cod3r.com/a52codec/). And of course the real Flip4Mac for WMV.
Niceplayer has an awesomely simple interface, is very fast and light on resources, gives you full screen and aspect ratio switching, and is just far and away the best player on Mac IMO. It will also play about as much as VLC will with that pack except MKV (unless you get a QuickTime plugin for that too) - smhill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"But can I play a Quicktime movie fullscreen?"
Yes, in FrontRow. That is what is for, why are you confused? QuickTime Pro is for advanced video exporting and other things. If you want to watch a movie full screen on your Mac, then to so. It won't cost you a dime and you won't have to download anything. - pyromouse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3yeah, gotta agree with KimmoA on this one.
- smhill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@HappyScrappy
"Why am I confused? I'm not confused. I mention Front Row in my post."
That is why I asked if you are confused, you mentioned Front Row, it is for watching movies in full screen.
"I don't want to do everything with the remote, thanks."
You don't need the remote to use front row, CMD+Esc
"I want to play some videos full screen outside of Front Row."
That makes no sense. if you are watching something full screen, it makes no difference what app you are in. Full screen is full screen, you aren't doing anything else. Makes no sense at all.
"Also, Front Row uses more CPU than just using QuickTime Player. There are HD videos I can play fullscreen in QuickTime Player without losing frames, but not in Front Row."
It is your imagination. Front row uses quicktime for playback. There is virtually no difference. Front row takes a fraction of a percent of CPU when playing. (ssh in and take a look)
It really seems like you are looking for something to whine about, if you want to watch movies full screen you can, it is free and came with the system. Plus, Front Row remembers where you last left off, QT player does not. - fusioned, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Or you could Google "quicktime pro 7 serial" and be done with it ;)
- KissTheRing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I hear ya Jaymoon, but the difference is that Quicktime on both mac and windows will play all the same stuff but with windows media video on a mac sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, hit and miss. I don't mind windows media player on my mac as long as it will play all the same content as WMP will on a windows machine, just like Apple does with Quicktime for both platforms.
- a0me, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah I never understood the logic behind the all for-pay fullscreen QuickTime feature when Apple bundles Frontrow which does exactly that for free...
Actually Frontrow is one of the reason I switched to Mac and I couldn't care less about what QuickTime can do or not.
But that's just me. - umdigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think most people pay for Quicktime Pro for the exporting options, not full screen. There are many other ways to watch files in full screen, as VLC has already been mentioned.
- Prysorra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@dgh1973
Media Player Classis isn't Windows Media Player :-) - Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I find it odd that in the "I'm a Mac" ads, they try to convince you that Mac is usable out-of-the-box, whereas PC isn't, conveniently failing to mention that on a Mac you can't play videos in full-screen or do word-processing without installing extra software, where most off-the-shelf PCs ship with WMP and Office pre-installed.
Also rather odd how they avoid mentioning gaming whilst making the PC appear boring and business-oriented.
(I'm no Mac-hater, I just think the ads are retarded... as does everyone.) - gatekillr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@Jaymoon
I totally agree with you. .mov should atleast be made an ISO Standard or everyone should start using Divx more :) - SilentSpyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2$30 is a whole work day for some people.
- Rickler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There is a lot wrong with the Mac ads; one of the big ones being, a Mac is a PC and a PC is not Windows.
- gwenkelly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I tried the Niceplayer ( http://niceplayer.sourceforge.net/ ) after it was recommended here, and I really like that. And I'm definately one of those users more advanced than the average joe, but less than perhaps many of you. It has a great interface, and thats what really matters to me.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why am I confused? I'm not confused. I mention Front Row in my post.
I don't want to do everything with the remote, thanks. I want to play some videos full screen outside of Front Row.
Also, Front Row uses more CPU than just using QuickTime Player. There are HD videos I can play fullscreen in QuickTime Player without losing frames, but not in Front Row. I think Front Row mismanages its frame buffers and causes extra pixel copies, increasing the CPU load on my poor Intel Mac Mini. - davdav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.google.com/search?q=quicktime+pro+7+serial
Wow! - coollettuce, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Or you could just register Quicktime Pro 7.
Registered To: Dawn M Fredette
Registration Code: 4UJ2-5NLF-HFFA-9JW3-X2KV - ilgaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now imagine if iPhone comes with Quicktime asking for $$$ to play fullscreen :)
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