Quicktime and Quicktime Alternative

[nivrip]

To keep things to a minimum I decided to download Quicktime Alternative as it advertises itself as a slimmed down version of Quicktime.

They are now both sitting on my PC and QT is 72.5 MB and QT Alternative is 101.9 MB. That doesn't seem slimmed down to me !

So, is there really any advantage in using QT Alternative? Anyone else use QTAlt?

 

[Ian]

I used to use QT Alternative (and Real Alternative), but from what I remeber they were very small packages at the time. Now I use a big codec pack which enables me to play QT files through most media players, or sometimes I just use VLC Player which can play almost anything

 

[V_R]

I used QT Lite until i got my iPhone4, Itunes cried so had to uninstall it....

 

[nivrip]

Thanks for the link, Ian. I've downloaded VLC Player and uninstalled both QT and QT Alt. However, on clicking iTunes I now get a message stating that "Quick Time is required to run iTunes" and it refuses to appear.


Is there something I need to do within VLC to configure iTunes so that it operates? I went into VLC Help (which is headed VLC for Dummies) but could not make head nor tail of it (which makes me worse than a dummy ).

 

[V_R]

You gotta have QT if your using iTunes. Need to reinstall iTunes.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Which is one of the reasons I stopped using i-Tunes yonks ago, infuriating piece of software.

I use Winamp to manage both my i-Pod libraries.

Interesting, the file sizes of QT & Alt QT, Nivrip has a point - what's the point? lol

I don't think Apple's QT is quite the bogeyman it used to be and it does actually play video files ok as I remember.

But i-Tunes, that's quite another matter, imo it verily sucketh a large one

But like Ian, I have the latest K-Lite codec pack installed and Alt Media Player now plays anything.

 

[nivrip]

Agghhhhhh......I give up. I don't use iTunes but one of my daughters uses it, when she's here at my place. She uses it it get stuff onto her iPhone.

I've simply gone back to QuickTime. Is there any other way to get stuff onto her phone?

 

[EvanDavis]

Agghhhhhh......I give up. I don't use iTunes but one of my daughters uses it, when she's here at my place. She uses it it get stuff onto her iPhone.

I've simply gone back to QuickTime. Is there any other way to get stuff onto her phone?

http://www.winamp.com/

 

[floppybootstomp]

Is there any other way to get stuff onto her phone?

I use Winamp to manage both my i-Pod libraries.

Should work ok with an i-Phone.

 

[muckshifter]

Is there any other way to get stuff onto her phone?

yep

you're too good to your children Niv ... make sure you have PSI installed

If "you" don't need it, don't install it.