Re: audio sync problems burning DVDs with Nero..s/w suggestions for DVD authoring?

William Davis wrote:

In article <tZxmg.5443$x6.1196@trndny05>, "doc" <doc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


nobody likes QT. we even had fits with quicktime with our macs.

drd


Two strikes today, "doc."

Wow, I've got to tell you you're are the ONLY guy I've ever known who has had ANY problem with Quicktime running on a Mac for about a decade now!

Many knowledgeable working professionals, myself included, think it's great simply because we NEVER have to think about it.


The QT codec is robust, completely stable, constantly evolving, supports popular standards like i264 and best of all, used with a modern internet connected Mac system, it's constantly updated seamlessly and free without my lifting a finger to do so.

Want more perspective? Here's a personal experience for you.

A few months ago, I produced an instructional DVD for sale. The product includes 133 DV clips that needed to run on BOTH PCs and MACs.

These were "plain vanilla" DV files, no extra compression or encoding.

I thought we were going to have to provide BOTH AVI and Quicktime files for complete customer target machine compatibility - but after extensive testing I got a surprise.

None of the "low level" PC machines we tested it with could play the QT file without jumping through download QT for PC hoops.

But surprise, surprise - we could take the same QT file - simply batch change the header to AVI, THEN the dumb PCs would finally recognize and play them, PLUS Quicktime would look at those SAME files, essentially ignore the AVI headers and also play them without a hitch.

In other words, the PCs file handling wasn't sophisticated enough to look beyond the header info - while the Macs looked at the FILE itself rather than just the header code - and determined that it could play the files just fine.

Yet another modest score for simple, seamless "Apple" software.


Totally agree with you here William, especially the part about evolving. Its nice to know their's a company actively developing QT as opposed to AVI which is kind of this free for all open source type system, with no real development at all, and no future that I can see either.

Can't tell you how many times I've loaded up an AVI file on my pc, only to be told that I can watch or even hear it because I'm missing some obscure codec.. With QT, you just play it, and it always works.

dave
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