Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

rehmakha76 reviewed v7.7.9 on Nov 9, 2020

Pros:

Cons: acc

Bottom Line: anc

tonnyken reviewed v7.7.9 on Apr 9, 2019

Pros: A great work, you should experience now

Cons: no

Bottom Line: nothing very good
run 3

pearlgibbs reviewed v7.7.9 on Mar 6, 2019

Pros: Sadly with the new version VLC version, now videos have this weird green bar at the bottom. soundcloud downloader https://scdownloader.io free download

Cons: Sadly the fix doesn’t work

Bottom Line: A fix was released a couple of days ago that supposedly took care of the green bar. Martin has an article about it dated May 13.

arossetti reviewed v7.7.8 on Aug 21, 2015

No Windows 10 support? Really?

lylejk reviewed v7.7.7 on Jul 1, 2015

Just tried to install 7.7.7 to my XP VM and found it's now only for Win7/8.1 only. Bummer. Doesn't matter; rarely use it anymore regardless. Still, yet more programs killiing support for XP when XP works fine so long as you know how to lock it down. :)

FatBastard reviewed v7.7.6 on Oct 23, 2014

Quicktime is total crapware! Get VLC !!!

Karol Mily reviewed v7.7.5 on Oct 20, 2014

It is still developed? Or Apple stoped it?

mikebratley reviewed v7.7.5 on Mar 11, 2014

very good

BANDIT- reviewed v7.7.5 on Feb 27, 2014

I remember this app being included on PC magazine CD's. I had a play at the time, but Naaaaah..... When I got into "serious" Video Editing it was Always MPC for me. MPC started to falter on .flv files, so i was forced towards KMplayer.

I don't use these players to "watch" Vid's. My use is solely Pre-Editing.
(#A fast search. #A Quick look at quality. #Check A/v sync "Start/Middle/End")
Before Editing & Re-Code.

KMplayer has served me faultlessly & Gets a FIVE.
QT had it's chance years ago but failed to Impress... 1* ... for still being there.

chrispaul reviewed v7.7.4.80.86 on Feb 17, 2014

awesome

roj reviewed v7.7.3.80.64 on Nov 9, 2012

One word:

NO>

Apple STINKS at writing PC software - PERIOD. This abortion is no exception.

dsp_418 reviewed v7.7.3.80.64 on Nov 9, 2012

I don't like this player either, as many of the posters here. One thing, though, needs to be said: it's the only player that actually allows the user to scrub the timeline (backward or foreward) with mostly all major file formats. For people who work in video / graphics field that's a crucial feature. If only Pot Player or any other good player out there would have the same smoothness when it comes to scrub the time line as QT does, I would not install it anymore.

Zootopia3001 reviewed v7.7.3.80.64 on Nov 8, 2012

No hint anywhere on the web as to the changes in this version, not even at the Apple site. One star for this player that needs to just die already. The same goes for Real Player.

Update: Found the changes. A host of security fixes regarding numerous file types and QT itself.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5581

FatBastard reviewed v7.7.3.80.64 on Nov 8, 2012

This app is so horrible!
Apple can't make software!
Use VLC !!!

war59312 reviewed v7.7.2.80.56 on Sep 20, 2012

Junk.

A real update would be nice, been years since it was really updated.

dorisgodess reviewed v7.70.80.34 on Aug 19, 2011

So far no problem with it.

gate1975mlm reviewed v7.70.80.34 on Aug 4, 2011

Apple web site still only has version 7.6.9 build.

The only reason I even use Quicktime anymore is so I can watch those great HD Trailers on web sites!

The Quicktime desktop player on Windows 7 is so slow its not even funny! It takes for ever to open and stat playing the videos! I hate it :(

I really wish apple would upgrade it and make it run a lot faster on Windows Where is Quicktime X for Windows?????!

baki_princ reviewed v7.70.80.34 on Aug 4, 2011

Why this s*** i s still alive? I only use it some times becouse of apple trailers

Banquo reviewed v7.70.80.34 on Aug 4, 2011

The only thing keeping this junk alive is iTunes.

war593122 reviewed v7.6.9 on Dec 10, 2010

Fixes 15 security vulnerabilities. Sad!

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4447

CyberDoc999 reviewed v7.6.9 on Dec 9, 2010

I have not installed QuickTime for 4 years....
I have not had any problems by not using QuickTime
the web does not use QuickTime anymore......

DabooDaboo reviewed v7.6.9 on Dec 9, 2010

It's Apple cutting edge media player in the world. The output quality is stunning, it will blow your panties off. For a limit time only for $29.95, hurry while the price is low.

Input Overload reviewed v7.6.9 on Dec 9, 2010

I hate Quick Time with a vengeance.

FatBastard reviewed v7.6.9 on Dec 8, 2010

I would like to give this piece of crap software a minus !!

baki_princ reviewed v7.6.8.75.0 on Dec 6, 2010

pls shut this app imedietly and stop emberesing ur self apple

trents reviewed v7.6.8.75.0 on Nov 25, 2010

Hi,
If you can download Quick time just try here at torrentshq.com...i think it really help us here....

stylemessiah reviewed v7.6.7.1675 on Aug 20, 2010

Use QTLite instead

No one should EVER install this crap

I even feel sorry for Mac users who i normally loathe, who have no choice but to use this bloated throwback

vailr reviewed v7.6.7.1675 on Aug 15, 2010

The downloaded file version is: 7.67.75.0.
Version 7.6.7.1675 is incorrect/non-existent.

Bala7 reviewed v7.6.7.1675 on Aug 13, 2010

roj and Fat,
because QT alternative and RealPlayer alternative projects are dead. The developer has gone all opensource and no one has picked up the projects. QuickTime alternative available here and elsewhere is old.

There are newer ver. of available from questionable sites bundled with malware.

FatBastard reviewed v7.6.7.1675 on Aug 13, 2010

I agree with roj.

Quicktime is CRAP even on Mac OSX. It's too big, too slow and has a userinterface from hell. Also the support for different formats is horrible.

Thank god the Quicktime fileformats are playable on other players.

I sometimes install Quicktime on Windows to get the Quicktime plugin but the player totally sux.

In Mac OSX I never use it. I use VLC. Without VLC the Mac would be almost unusable as a mediaplayer.

roj reviewed v7.6.7.1675 on Aug 13, 2010

Why anyone would use this bloated, invasive disaster is beyond human or inhuman understanding. Quicktime Alternative is the intelligent way to go if you wish to view Apple proprietary formats - it strips away the poorly coded dreck and just leaves the raw codecs.

ONE star for the Typical Apple Retroactive Abortion Software Award.

Darkman00 reviewed v7.6.6 on Mar 31, 2010

switched back to 7.6.5 ...

For something that i was using QT .. 7.6.6 didn't work (or didn't work too well) for me for some reason...

.. and i didn't want to play around with it any longer .. so i switched back to 7.6.5 .. and OK again (whatever i was doing previously) :)

maybe 7.6.7 will fix it... :)
who knows...

borisf98 reviewed v7.6.5 on Jan 27, 2010

I use it only to to watch trailers on Apple website. For this purpose, original Quicktime program is the best. QuickTime Lite and Quicktime Alternative just did not not work on my Firefox computer.

mjm01010101 reviewed v7.6.5 on Nov 18, 2009

apple software update isn't even detecting this. Stay classy, Apple.

Robbie Ride reviewed v7.6.5 on Nov 18, 2009

Seems a shame Quicktime X hasn't been ported to the Windows Platform yet

jblane reviewed v7.6.4 on Sep 11, 2009

What can I say? It's like shooting a sitting duck.
Poor old QT format...

hedley reviewed v7.6.4 on Sep 10, 2009

RealPlayer way for quickplayer.

EliGarten reviewed v7.6.2 on Jun 2, 2009

does anyone know if the new Quick Time H.264 support also allows playback of UDP multicast or unicast transport streams?

anomoly reviewed v7.6.2 on Jun 2, 2009

"And Uh you can't use itunes 8 without quicktime."
crap in-crap out. Epitomy of bloat. drones

GrailKnight reviewed v7.6 on Jan 22, 2009

Over rated media player right up their with RealPlayer.

QT Alternative works fine with Firefox and that is all I need it for.

some guy reviewed v7.6 on Jan 22, 2009

bloat crap die with real player.. when I have to actually open a mov file ,,,shrugs
I use QuickTime Alternative FTW

sbeckstead reviewed v7.6 on Jan 21, 2009

Don't know why people don't like it. Fastest streaming client since VLC. And Uh you can't use itunes 8 without quicktime. Oh and if you don't install all the other codecs quicktime alternative is useless so there goes the bloat argument.

Paul Skinner reviewed v7.6 on Jan 21, 2009

It's gone down ~5MB in size from the last version! That's a start.
Still prefer QuickTime Alternative though.

Zee333 reviewed v7.5.5 on Sep 9, 2008

Compared to the new iTunes v8, this is aweful, read my review on iTunes 8 (which is such a major improvement from v7)
QuickTime 7.5.5 is still slow and very buggy, hopefully they will bring out QuickTime 8, and hopefully it will finally be decent software like iTunes 8 is.

Daddy_Spank reviewed v7.5.5 on Sep 9, 2008

What a horrible piece of junk. Apple at its worst.

oomingmak reviewed v7.5.5 on Sep 9, 2008

Utter rubbish.

Daddy_Spank reviewed v7.50.61.0 on Jun 11, 2008

Terrible bloatware. Only shows what apple is capable of. If you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO use quicktime, use quick time alternative.

ShadowGod reviewed v7.50.61.0 on Jun 10, 2008

Horrible. Steals Windows file associations. Apple knows this yet they do not correct it.

Get Quicktime Alternative instead if you run Windows.

mjm01010101 reviewed v7.50.61.0 on Jun 10, 2008

You left out insecure, of course!
http://secunia.com/advisories/29293/

Diam0nd reviewed v7.50.61.0 on Jun 10, 2008

Bloat, buggy, slow. Did I leave anything out?

halc reviewed v7.4.5 on Apr 27, 2008

Bloated, slow, buggy and now with a 0-day exploit as a bonus!

I wish Apple would just refactor it completely from the ground up.

What it does well is play qt movies, although even that does require too much horsepower (i.e. code unoptimized).

mjm01010101 reviewed v7.4.5 on Apr 4, 2008

http://secunia.com/advisories/29650/

Squeal like a pig, if you use Quicktime...

madmike reviewed v7.4.5 on Apr 4, 2008

Tis a drain and a pain, bloatted and the bloat off course not needed, no doubt apple fan boys would argue, but ultimatley its pants.

Try using KT etc, does the trick better and lighter:)

Skyfrog reviewed v7.4.5 on Apr 4, 2008

Terrible, despite all the glowing reviews from Apple's "fans".

sbeckstead reviewed v7.4.5 on Apr 3, 2008

Fastest streaming client I could find. The problems the other guys talk about are their own laziness in setting it up. It opens files on my system just by double clicking. But that's Windows stupid extension assignment crap.

Banquo reviewed v7.4.5 on Apr 3, 2008

A bloated, system intrusive and bug-ridden piece of garbage. Not to mention their stupid updater that installs even if you tell it not to and "helpfully" tells you about a new version of Safari even if you don't have it installed. I give it a one because it doesn't go any lower.

hugh750 reviewed v7.4.5 on Apr 3, 2008

I gave it a 5 because it don't go any higher.
Plus what's not to like about quicktime they seem to have most of it's past bugs fixed.

some guy reviewed v7.4.5 on Apr 3, 2008

shrugs Quick time bloat

K-lite + QT alternative your set

mewmew reviewed v7.4.5 on Apr 3, 2008

It's OK but still big and a little slow to load.
Not liking how it connects to the internet at the start to show ads for "better QuickTime content".
Only use it for files other players can't open properly. I prefer GOM Player and QuickTime Alternative.

DoHickey reviewed v7.4.5 on Apr 3, 2008

I tried this, it's slow to load & wouldn't play a QuickTime movie just by clicking on the filename in windows explorer. I had to open the QuickTime program and open the file. As far as I-tunes, not having an ipod myself, I don't need this. Problems and tasks loaded into memory. msie.exe & others. apple software update gave fatal errors when uninstalling. I got rid of it after using total uninstall, but it had problems ridding me of this beast.

Cris3 reviewed v7.4.5 on Apr 3, 2008

It works great. The interface looks nice. You can grab the corner and resize the window. It's not loaded up with a bunch of annoyances like it did years ago. I don't see why it's not getting better reviews.

frodo888 reviewed v7.4.5 on Apr 3, 2008

QuickTime is another word for BloatWare. Last versions were so buggy, the whole system crashes if you play something with quicktime. QuickTime is the last thing you need.

preinterpost reviewed v7.4.1 on Feb 7, 2008

Please give it up already and use something the rest of the world (for whom Apple is just another company) wants.

ixxy reviewed v7.4.1 on Feb 7, 2008

Hah, just because its less buggy on other platforms than on OSX makes this the best program Apple has ever created? That's hilarious. This program is terrible, simply for the fact you STILL have to pay to watch the HD trailers (free) they provide in fullscreen. Even after all these years. Enough with the games, get Qtalternative.

smarterthanyou reviewed v7.4.1 on Feb 7, 2008

This is the best piece of software Apple has ever created. This software is more stable and less buggy than any other Apple media player on both Windows PC's and Mac's.

meteecee reviewed v7.4.1 on Feb 6, 2008

It's so nice not to have to install QT and still
be able to watch it's format on better players
ie: ZOOM

i-tunes? might as well ask me to install Norton

Ryusennin reviewed v7.4.1 on Feb 6, 2008

"It supports timecode tracks as well as MIDI standards such as the Roland Sound Canvas and GS format extensions."

This is total bullsh!t. QT is barely compatible with GM, let alone GS. I have a Roland CM-500 and can tell you that QT does *not* support GS extensions. QT is a lousy MIDI player. One good reason to give it a 1 :)

Banquo reviewed v7.4.1 on Feb 6, 2008

Absolute garbage, how much bigger can they make it?

Crispy777 reviewed v7.4.1 on Feb 6, 2008

If you want to bring your system to a halt, this bloatware is a good way to do it.

Running Quicktime and it's sibling iTunes are absolutely one of the best ways to bring a modern computer to it's knees.

The H.264 video codec is great and fortunately you can get it on your computer without the bloat by downloading a 3rd party codec pack.

Skyfrog reviewed v7.4.1 on Feb 6, 2008

I had to install this on someone's computer recently and just watching the installer was mind boggling. Has anyone watched how many files it installs lately, or even scarier how many registry entries it is making. All I can think is WTF, it's ridiculous.

I know the term bloatware is overused, but there's no other word to describe this. It's a bloated, horrible piece of crap! Then of course every other week it seems there is some security issue. No flipping wonder seeing the way it digs it's tentacles into your system. I just wish I could give it a zero rating.

mjm01010101 reviewed v7.4.1 on Feb 6, 2008

Hey mjm01010101: Stop spamming the board with all the security issues Quicktime has! (It has only been two weeks this time!)

MAW reviewed v7.4 on Jan 23, 2008

It turns out that there are known issues with QuickTime 7.4 and Windows. I discovered this when I tried to rent a move from iTunes. It's the usual *long and frustrating* support story. I hope they fix the problem soon. I am unable to hear movies or TV from iTunes with the latest version. I gather other Windows XP users are having the same problem. This was a big one for the developers to miss.

mjm01010101 reviewed v7.4 on Jan 16, 2008

http://secunia.com/advisories/28502/
Of course there's a vulnerability in Quicktime. You take your computer's life in your hands with this software.....

FailedCRC reviewed v7.4 on Jan 16, 2008

Quicktime alternative is your friend.

http://fileforum.betanew...native_QT7/1049831315/1

bunghole reviewed v7.4 on Jan 16, 2008

pure garbage.

angrykeyboarder reviewed v7.3.1 on Dec 17, 2007

Were it not for my use of iTunes, I'd go for QuickTime alternative.

Diam0nd reviewed v7.3.1 on Dec 15, 2007

bloat....

Winkler reviewed v7.3.1 on Dec 14, 2007

all i have to say is : QT LITE

preinterpost reviewed v7.3.1 on Dec 14, 2007

Painful and bloated - thanks god there is QT alternative.

mikeyx11 reviewed v7.3.1 on Dec 14, 2007

QuickTime is rubbish.

godofthunder reviewed v7.3.1 on Dec 14, 2007

Quick time alternative will allow you to play quicktime in a player of your choice. I don't see why you would need a different media player for every format. Although quicktime is good, it's just not worth instaling another media player just so you can play quicktime files.

armpit reviewed v7.3.1 on Dec 13, 2007

Just say no and grab quicktime alternative. There are better standalone players out there.

rseiler reviewed v7.3.1 on Dec 13, 2007

terminalx -- I don't know what happened in your case, but I've never seen it grab associations here. You can choose what you like.

terminalx reviewed v7.3.1 on Dec 13, 2007

Horrible, horrible software, associates itself to everything whether you tell it to or not, becomes the default for all embedded files on webpages whether you want it or not.

Still runs in the background after you close it, adds shortcuts whether you want it or not, so since there is another update, how long until itunes has to update again.

roj reviewed v7.3.1 on Dec 13, 2007

Get QuickTime Alternative with just the codecs - this is like everything else from that overhyped, overmarketed two-bit company.

'nuff said.

arossetti reviewed v7.3.1 on Dec 13, 2007

No, no, no. Only Microsoft makes software with security vulnerabilities. Apple is purrrrrfect. That's why they name their OS's after a bunch of *cats*.

I guess it's a little tougher writing secure software for a platform that people actually use...

mjm01010101 reviewed v7.3.1 on Dec 13, 2007

My prediction below was accurate.
My new prediction: vulnerability within 6 days.

mjm01010101 reviewed v7.3 on Nov 6, 2007

"addressing seven security vulnerablities"

And I bet we'll see even more next week!

some guy reviewed v7.3 on Nov 5, 2007

I will agree
Crispy777

M3wThr33 reviewed v7.3 on Nov 5, 2007

FINALLY! Apple/nVidia fixed it!
There were issues running Quicktime in Firefox on a GeForce 8800. They're fixed and Quicktime runs perfectly now!

Crispy777 reviewed v7.2 on Jul 12, 2007

H.264 video codec is nice, but the player is a piece of crap.

No full screen without registration, lol.
No saving of files without pro. lol, yeah thats PRO :D .. saving is for professionals only. Also if you go to apple.com and try to download quicktime, they will try to forcebundle you with their assraping iTunes. Beware.

testman reviewed v7.2 on Jul 12, 2007

The system requirements really need checking before posting, cos it's only for XP and Vista now.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

Software is OK, player is a bit slow in opening.

Crispy777, you can play full-screen videos now without needing Pro. Need to check your facts before posting.

Reverb reviewed v7.2 on Jul 11, 2007

This is a great player...if you have never used any other media players like KMPlayer and are always clicking on every banner ad then wonder why 10 pop-ups open everytime you run IE and you have no idea where all those toolbars came from.

I agree with mjm01010101 this monster just takes over your PC like Realplayer but due to the content on the web that requires it we are forced to install on users PCs as bloated corporations only trust bloated products from other bloated corporations and would never even consider something like QT alternative or Real Alternative.

@twosheds:
My camera also records in MOV format but I convert to AVI for editing.

Latz ! reviewed v7.2 on Jul 11, 2007

Great player.

arossetti reviewed v7.2 on Jul 11, 2007

I can see an OS needing to patch 7 critical flaws, but a garbage piece of software that's only purpose is to play a single proprietary format having 7 gaping holes to be plugged? I'm glad Apple doesn't write OS software for my PC.

roj reviewed v7.2 on Jul 11, 2007

Quicktime Alternative.

No ads.

No bloat.

Just codecs and a REAL player to get the job done right.

ONE star for a two bit package form a two bit company.

mjm01010101 reviewed v7.2 on Jul 11, 2007

An update about every month now. This app is bloat, I hate it, but I'm forced now to install it because of the apple crap all over the web. I pretty much have to uncheck every nonapple association it makes. annoying to upgrade on a corporate lan. ugh...

twosheds reviewed v7.1.6.200 on Jun 30, 2007

Once brilliant, simple and cheap with endless upgrades thrown in. Now rivals RealPlayer for undesirability on your system. I wish I could install the player to use for video editing since my ****ing Nikon camera insists on taking movies in .MOV format, and I'd like to edit them losslessly, even if I had to pay the pro price (there's nothing else on the market that can do it) - alas, QT wants too big a slice of my PC for that functionality, so I will have to find workarounds. I actually have a Virtual PC with Windows XP SPECIFICALLY for using QT to edit video, so I don't have to have this overwhleming crud on my 'real' PC.

Diam0nd reviewed v7.1.6.200 on Jun 9, 2007

Bloat. Spyware. Adware.

Crap, as all other apple products. Overprices, featureless, purposefully limited. Junk. Apple, please die. ty.

Ian C. reviewed v7.1.6.200 on May 2, 2007

Well I wasn't really gonna ever review this, till I ended up seeing the description. So here's my two cents:

Cutting edge? No!
Delivers unparalleled quality? No!
Honestly, the mov format has nothing on DivX or wmv, accept maybe 3x file size for equivilent quality.
Tons of bloat? Yes!
Huge security hole? Yes!

therube reviewed v7.1.6.200 on May 2, 2007

QuickTime 7.1.6

Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9, Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 SP4

Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: An implementation issue exists in QuickTime for Java, which may allow reading or writing out of the bounds of the allocated heap. By enticing a user to visit a web page containing a maliciously-crafted Java applet, an attacker can trigger the issue which may lead to arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by performing additional bounds checking when creating QTPointerRef objects. Credit to Dino Dai Zovi working with TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative for reporting this issue."

http://docs.info.apple.c...icle.html?artnum=305446

Captain Hook reviewed v7.1.5 on Mar 6, 2007

I had Quicktime and Itunes installed a couple of hours ago, automatically installed! I have an iPod, thats why. :-(

Now, my MSN Messenger Live! v 8.1.0178.00 will never start again. It is crashing instantly and I can't do anything about it. It crashes immediately when it starts.
It takes all my memory away and my CPU is running 100%.

Boy, do I hate this Bloatware/Crapware!!!

doctorsmith reviewed v7.1.5 on Mar 6, 2007

2 words - quicktime alternative

FailedCRC reviewed v7.1.5 on Mar 6, 2007

Activex control appears not to work in IE7 under Vista x64. Player controls also do not display in Opera / FF. Winner.

photonboy reviewed v7.1.5 on Mar 6, 2007

Good for what it does, but I certainly wouldn't buy the Pro version.

I have to give it a 4 only because you have to buy Pro to watch Fullscreen movie trailers.

Depending on need, you may wish to use the "Quicktime Alternative" instead which I believe allows for Fullscreen. However, if you have the Pro version you can SAVE the movie trailers for later playback which is nice especially for some CPU's which may need VLC to playback the video without stuttering.

DudeBoyz reviewed v7.1.5 on Mar 5, 2007

Works fine overall, but I hate the nagging to upgrade to the PRO version. Hate it. All I want is playback - nothing else from this app.

At least version 7 gave us back a functiona Brightness control.

EMkaEL reviewed v7.1.5 on Mar 5, 2007

finally an update that doesnt make playing my vids async!

mjm01010101 reviewed v7.1.5 on Mar 5, 2007

Flawed bloat with Security issues going beyond this single patch.

Media players should rarely, if ever, have vulnerabilities. They shouldn't be vulnerable to any security vulns: ever. They are desling with non-interactive formats (whoops mov isn't, there's your first mistake apple,) and therefore quicktime will always be subject to security vulns.

The update model is flawed as well.

Get QT alternative, if you must get anything.

Canuckistani reviewed v7.1.5 on Mar 5, 2007

Because, Sorb, the people who are complaining wouldn't touch WMP with a ten foot pole either and rightly so.

Sorb reviewed v7.1.3 on Sep 13, 2006

I´ve never understood why people dislike QuickTime? It´s nearly brilliant, with the inclusion of H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) and all. And the HD movie trailers on http://www.apple.com/trailers kick ass. I´d take QuickTime Player over Windows Media Player any day. With WMP you can´t even frame-scrub with the arrow keys!

Aires reviewed v7.1.3 on Sep 13, 2006

Saying that this is cutting-edge digital media software is a bit misleading at the very least.

zridling reviewed v7.1.3 on Sep 13, 2006

Positively one of the worst apps ever built. I feel sorry for mac people. They have expensive hardware, and that's about all they have to brag about — hey Ma, guess what? I paid a fortune for this crap, but it comes with this virus, er, I mean program called QuickTime which slows your system to a crawl!

arunjeevi reviewed v7.1.3 on Sep 13, 2006

does this version supports Vista RC 1?

mjm01010101 reviewed v7.1.3 on Sep 12, 2006

It is bloatware. It's size is not only many times what one would expect from a media application, it does far more than one would like from such an application.

Media applications should, in my opinion:
1. Not Spew their icons all over my desktop.
2. Not Spew icons in my taskbar.
3. Not Spew icons in control panel.
4. Not Take over permissions of other applications without detailed warning and using the most simple of interfaces.
5. Should have a non-intrusive update application.
6. Should be secure from most common vulnerabilities.
7. Should not include itunes by default. What IT team installs itunes+quicktime is asking for headaches.

An Example: Why is Qtime taking over tiff viewing if it cannot handle this function properly! Try and view multi-page images on the USPTO.gov site! They can't. And QT hasn't EVER been able to!

Media player classic FTW.
Quicktime Alternative FTW.
Quicktime Alternative lite FTW.

Oh, and here are the previous batch of security updates apple has failed to disclose:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21893/

castiglione reviewed v7.1.3 on Sep 12, 2006

Firstly, Quicktime isn't bloatware, and who really cares if it is, especially if one has a large hard drive in terms of space?

Secondly, telling people to stay away from one application or another will only make people IGNORE that suggestion and just go ahead and get the application they want.

For me, QT is awesome. I have not had a problem with it at all.. the same with iTunes, and I don't care if it's bundled together. And I don't care whether people like that or not, I will still use an application as I see fit no matter what.

To mjm01010101: who cares? It doesn't matter if you say it's bloatware, because I don't see it as being "bloatware" and I don't care if it is bloatware.

tasty reviewed v7.1.0.210 on May 19, 2006

Quicktime standalone installer has always been available:

http://www.apple.com/qui...ownload/standalone.html

mjm01010101 reviewed v7.1.0.210 on May 12, 2006

Security holes about every month now. I don't allow it on any network I manage.

the artist reviewed v7.1.0.210 on May 12, 2006

absolute CRAP, PREHISTORIC in almost every aspect!

Make a healthy choice, get QT Alternative instead...

ModderXManiac reviewed v7.1.0.210 on May 12, 2006

Three words:
Quicktime Alternative/VideoLAN

joeshmoe7 reviewed v7.1.0.210 on May 12, 2006

Yeah apple loves to push itunes on everyone but..
the quicktime standalone is still out there floating around, i got it from filehippo and its the new 7.1

Bobbitchin reviewed v7.1.0.210 on May 12, 2006

Why do I have to install I-tunes just to get QuickTime? I don't want I-Tunes, I don't Need I-Tunes. Apple can shove their Quicktime/I-Tunes bloatware. I am sticking with QT Alternitive.

bobthegoat2001 reviewed v7.0.4 on May 8, 2006

If you have this installed, you should 'quick'ly uninstall it. You can get better free versions like Quicktime Alternative, which can also be found here. Loads better than this and it's free.

WhiteZero reviewed v7.0.4 on Mar 14, 2006

wilmcdaniel, a driver for everything you have to install? Wow, you really dont know what your talking about.

wilmcdaniel reviewed v7.0.4 on Jan 24, 2006

Give me a break... Quicktime rocks!!!!Apple rocks....I Have to use windows here at my job and it is quite disturbing to know that i have to download a driver for everything I want to install.... My Dell (junk) would not even recognize my dell printer both brand new, until I loaded the software drivers on it... Pain in the aaa.. to use... Plus feels super cheap.... Not to mention the windows media player is ugly and a pain to use....Sorry guys and girls....quicktime, like its maker is clean, efficiant and easy to use....

photonboy reviewed v7.0.4 on Jan 11, 2006

You can get free alternatives that do some of the same things. Check out VLC, quicktime alternative etc. I use other programs in the PC world that seem far superior to this.

Adrian79 reviewed v7.0.4 on Jan 11, 2006

yay!

donpacman reviewed v7.0.4 on Jan 11, 2006

QuickTime is dead!

cooldude7273 reviewed v7.0.4 on Jan 10, 2006

What's New in QuickTime 7.0.4
QuickTime 7.0.4 is an important release that delivers numerous bug fixes and H.264 performance improvements. This update is highly recommended for all QuickTime 7 users.

zridling reviewed v7.0.4 on Jan 10, 2006

Highly disappointing and not worth the upgrade. All version 7 does is prevent you from saving files unless you pay Apple more money. Just like anything that Apple does, you're paying through the nose for a slick interface, but consistently poor performance.

mjm01010101 reviewed v7.0.4 on Jan 10, 2006

ckasprzak then why don't you just install Quicktime Alternative or k-lite mega codec pack?

On the subject of QT, it's installer is buggy, the last few versions have shown memory errors during install on various systems I've admin'ed. I typically stick with QTA unless forced by the clueless client.

ckasprzak reviewed v7.0.4 on Jan 10, 2006

Quicktime is bloated for windows so I just install it codecs and have Media Player Classic handle all my playing needs.

DamienMcKenna reviewed v7.0.4 on Jan 10, 2006

No problems here, have always been a fan. Anyone know how to find out the changes from version to version, e.g. 7.0.3 to 7.0.4?

imanino reviewed v7.0.3 on Dec 26, 2005

Just say no..and point your browser to QTA and promise to sin no more. all is forgiven..but the Apple folks who design this crap with the Qttask that kills startups and clogs up processor cycles everywhere..well, may I suggest exorcism...?

Kahawa reviewed v7.0.3 on Oct 27, 2005

I have the Pro version of QuickTime 7 on XP and also OS X and had previously used QuickTime Pro 6 on a PC and also a Mac.
The same SMIL files that have worked fine with all versions (cross platform) except the latest version of QT for XP.
QT 7 for XP does not seem to understand clip-begin and clip-end times correctly in certain sequences done in SMIL format.
Otherwise, I find QT 7 to be an improvement over QT 6, except for one other personal preference, which is the chapter drop-down menus in QT 6 scaled to content, while in QT 7 the drop-down menu is a fixed width when showing the current selection playing.

photonboy reviewed v7.0.3 on Oct 13, 2005

I use the Quicktime alternative codec. It works even better. Quicktime Pro 7 was freezing when I tried to go to Fullscreen.
The free alternative version works better for me than the Pro version which costs money.

Every time they upgrade Itunes people have to download the whole thing again. At least they let people remove Quicktime 7 AFTER they've installed it (again).

Blaxima reviewed v7.0.3 on Oct 13, 2005

Some things never change, like how this player absolutley sux. Just like Quicktime it is loaded with intrusive adware and loves to take liberties whithout your input. Do yourself a favor and download the K-Lite Mega codec pack. It comes bundled with two players for you to choose from and it will play just about anything. Did I mention yet how much Real (and Quicktime)sux? Stay away from this and QT like the plague.

I just pasted my Real review but you get the idea. QT has better video quality but still is like a sales man kicking in your door.
Hmmmm QT and Real out on the same day...Hmmm

Adrian79 reviewed v7.0.3 on Oct 13, 2005

lol u guys think u actually have to pay? hehe

ModderXManiac reviewed v7.0.3 on Oct 13, 2005

BLOAT! BANNERS! GAH!!!

zridling reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 9, 2005

Where to start. Not much has changed since the previous version except lots of ads to get you to buy Apple's crappy ipods. Anyone caught paying for this probably already owns a mac. Oy.

heyupandy reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 8, 2005

i'm not 1 for rating software low but why use a program where u hav 2 pay to use alot of the main features such as full screen when u can use quicktime alternative for free and get all the codecs needed and play them in fullscreen etc.

if apple simply allowed you to use the full screem and a couple of other minor things in the standard version then this would get 5 stars off me, until then i'd stick to quicktime alternative :)

nickpowers101 reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 8, 2005

I like it.

anti00Zero reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 8, 2005

lol.

who use the "normal" quicktime as an "normal" home user?

i use quicktime alternative. it's much better, because the codecs are important and not the other things.

donpacman reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 8, 2005

http://appldnld.m7z.net/.../QuickTimeInstaller.exe

That's a direct link for the standalone installer for Windows.

ljfnord reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 8, 2005

You are not forced to download iTunes. Apple just hides the standalone installer extremely well, for obvious marketing reasons. If you want the standalone installer, go to http://www.apple.com/qui...ownload/standalone.html and grab a copy.

Colour reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 8, 2005

This program is just slow. It's not workable. I try to load up a movie and it just kills my system. That's not good. Even Windows Media Player doesn't do that.

There's a reason why Apple forces you download this with iTunes, whether you want to or not...

agildehaus reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 8, 2005

It's a definite improvement, but still heafty on the resources and includes no decent video streaming of any kind. It's still the best browser plug-in for high-quality web video.

jessa reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 7, 2005

the program works well, but it is just getting to big now. there should be no alternative to quicktime alternative :)

hugh750 reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 7, 2005

I Just Downloaded Quicktime 7 And So Far I'm Not Having Any Problems With It.

kise reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 7, 2005

I can't understand why they keep making new Quicktime versions.. or why using it.

HurricaneGame reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 7, 2005

Meh, it's ok program..but alternative is better.

ServerMechanic reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 7, 2005

Bloat.

And by bloat here's what I mean:

Ever used a computer when Windows 9x was out? Things would run smoothly and when you launched a program it would launch and would not be a memory hog.

Now days things from Apple are slow to respond to mouse clicks on the screen and what not. I don't know if that's due to what it's written in or what.

I can use Windows Media Player without problems.

I'm on a new Dell Pentium M Laptop with 1GB of RAM and Windows XP Pro with SP2.

iTunes + Quicktime = bloat.

ZenWarrior reviewed v7.0.2 Final on Sep 7, 2005

Hmmm...I use QuickTime *only* with any external monitor. Sorry, but that seems a real "What duh...!?" decision on Apple's part. They're supposed to offer the better A/V OS, but this is a step backwards--IMHO. No external monitor support, then very often no QuickTime for this user. (Jeesh, what about Archive.org which uses it almost exclusively? Yikes!!!)

jaffar- reviewed v7.0.2.70 Public Preview 3 on Aug 13, 2005

not working fine with old sound cards like c-media cmi8330

jeepbastard reviewed v7.0.2.70 Public Preview 3 on Aug 12, 2005

They added a lot of great features and it's much cleaner and it's stable.

BUT! They removed video overlay! Some of us used to watch the video from the quicktime player on an external monitor! Quicktime used to be the default format, but now everyone goes mpeg or divx because the divx player and the windows media player support video overlay.

flashhh reviewed v7.0.2.70 Public Preview 3 on Aug 12, 2005

This program is a real giant. Does not support most video and audio formats, displays ads, sits in the system tray.... a real junk. The only thing good is theinterface. Try the alternative codec (it's a bit big too, but also a bit better).

Banquo reviewed v7.0.2.70 Public Preview 3 on Aug 11, 2005

People who scream about bloat every time a new program comes out get on my nerves. I don't know if they think everything should still fit on floppy disks or what their problem is. Anyway, this is by far the best version of QuickTime for Windows Apple has ever made, very much improved over past versions. I've had no trouble with the past release or this one and I'm looking forward to the final.

Adrian79 reviewed v7.0.2.70 Public Preview 3 on Aug 11, 2005

i have a HUGEEE hhd, so i dont care about "bloat" i enjoy all the extra little features :p

i dont care much for alternative software..i stick to the originalz, hehe btw, i'm far from a novice

zridling reviewed v7.0.2.70 Public Preview 3 on Aug 11, 2005

QT was a decent albeit simplistic app in version 6.5. This version is another arrogant example of horrid bloat by Apple.

sn0wflake reviewed v7.0.2.70 Public Preview 3 on Aug 11, 2005

I have the same opinion as roj, emredondo, and a lot others. This is bloatware I tell you.
Try Quicktime Alternative instead. Most up-to-date version can be found @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ or here @ http://fileforum.betanew...l/QuickTime_Alternative/

Zulithe reviewed v7.0.2.70 Public Preview 3 on Aug 11, 2005

Excellent. The Software update works in this version. It didn't in Preview 2

donpacman reviewed v7.0.2.70 Public Preview 3 on Aug 11, 2005

I really wish a change log would be posted on these updates because this
IS NOT "QuickTime for Windows 7.0.2.70 Public Preview 3 beta"!!!
The link BetaNews is using is incorrect.

This is the correct link.
http://appldnld.m7z.net/.../QuickTimeInstaller.exe

emredondo reviewed v7.0.2.70 Public Preview 3 on Aug 11, 2005

A bloated crap. Use Quick Time alternative.

photonboy reviewed v7.0.2.63 Public Preview 2 on Aug 4, 2005

There's something seriously wrong when you need a minimum of a 2.8GHz Intel CPU just to play 720p.

I have an AMD Athlon 3000+ and I can't play the Quicktime format but I can play the Windows HD format.

I also don't find Quicktime nearly as configurable as say, Zoomplayer with the AC3filter for sound.

mastergeese reviewed v7.0.2.63 Public Preview 2 on Jul 15, 2005

Version 7 not allow to save movies in cache !
we need to pay quict time 7 pro for it. Pityfull, back on 6.5.2

Banquo reviewed v7.0.2.63 Public Preview 2 on Jul 15, 2005

What are you talking about? It plays mpegs just fine, along with divx, avi, pretty much any video format I have on my system works with it. Anyway, this version is much improved but the GUI is still laggy when moving or resizing. I hope they'll work on that.

zridling reviewed v7.0.2.63 Public Preview 2 on Jul 14, 2005

QuickTime is an anachronism. The world has moved on and QT is so 1998.

Notreallyhere reviewed v7.0.2.63 Public Preview 2 on Jul 14, 2005

It's nice and shiny but it won't play any mpegs :(

donpacman reviewed v7.0.2.63 Public Preview 2 on Jul 14, 2005

The Pro version seems to work well.

Where's the Change-Log?

billsawyer reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jul 5, 2005

Works nicely for me. No problems yet... :-)

ecjs reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 30, 2005

Nice if you have the pro version. Otherwise, I prefer Quicktime Alternative.

zridling reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 7, 2005

Another horrid crippleware product from the folks at Apple. They love to dazzle you, but when it comes to function, they pass the buck. Anyone noticed the enormous file size increases? One conversion went from 20k to 880k from version 6 to 7.

xrayspex reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 7, 2005

Horrid. The preveiw crashes
Any media player that makes you pay for a simple function that ALL other media players give for free..being able to watch in full screen is absurd.
QT is my least favorite of any media player out there and this preveiw version sucks as much as all QT releases.

LimeBreath reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 7, 2005

Yes it's a beta, but it crashes on my system with .mov files, and will not uninstall without manual registry editing.

ajsaragosa1979 reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 7, 2005

checked it out, not bad, but nothing new...

and Mastertech, you must be a complete idiot.
search on the page for the standalone download.
ITUNES is not force installed, you CHOOSE to download the combo, you will have to live with that choice.
you dumb all of us down if you can't figure that out.
and 7 preview is not bundled (yet at least)

Aires reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 7, 2005

@ rrtn - What is all the swearing for? It only makes you look like a complete ass. :?

I agree that it's not really a good thing that QT installs iT. Just download the standalone without iT from http://www.apple.com/qui...ownload/standalone.html Very good for streaming and of course I have to agree, this player does what it is supposed to do with .mov files. [shrugs]

Chillout everyone - it is a PREVIEW!

muss@muss.dk reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 7, 2005

Why is it, that almost everyone is pointing fingers of this nice player and making negative remarks about "bundled with i-tunes", "bloatware" just to name a few ?

If you don't like i-tunes, just un-install the aplication afterwards. It's not that difficult, since it comes with its very own un-installer...
When finished, you end up with only Quicktime Player installed.

By the way, back to the review:
I rate it a 4 because of its ease of use, un-bloated interface and superb videoquality.
This player does what it is supposed to do with .mov files.

ArKay74 reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 7, 2005

H.264 is a new(er) compression standard. I remember when MPEG2 came out and there were hardware decoder cards because standard PC's were not able to decode DVD's in realtime (I still have one of those "Hollywood Plus" cards). I am just able to play a 720p movie on my Athlon 64 3200+, but then again that is enough for my 19" TFT, higher res wouldn't make any sense :) Performance is about the same on my 1,33GHz(!) Powerbook though so there is still room for improvement, yet other Windows VFW codecs are not faster than this baby so who knows?

Caleb reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 7, 2005

Why are people slandering this app?

I install and use it mainly for streaming... and it works pretty well.

technomancer reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 7, 2005

This is bloatware!

jm1234567890 reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 7, 2005

It's still a preview, no where near the performance on OSX.

H.264 is really good for streaming.

ir0nw0lf reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 7, 2005

The 1080p videos play like total dog poo poo, even on high end systems, this info from several websites already. Highly disappointing sofar.

dzjepp reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 6, 2005

Why, you ask? Because they are not apple workers. o.0

Anyways, I prefer the quicktime codec bundle found here: http://ksphere.free.fr/site/codecspackage.php

The bundle in k-lite mega codec pack is okay as well.

Isoptera4 reviewed v7.0 Public Preview on Jun 6, 2005

Is it me or do all the reviews below seem like the same person? The prog is bloated and slow. Use media player classic instead.

RWW reviewed v6.5.2 on May 21, 2005

It seems Quicktime is the only one that will play MOV files for me. I think I have tried everything out there. Very stable.

Ramchandra reviewed v6.5.2 on May 9, 2005

It can play the clip in alomost all movie format.

Christopher Reeve reviewed v6.5.2 on May 6, 2005

It is an excellent movie viewer application

Tanya Tara reviewed v6.5.2 on May 5, 2005

It is going to be best with number of its competitors like AVT and ActiveMovie.

Donna Dora reviewed v6.5.2 on May 4, 2005

i like it because it plays movie in full screen, because of it i can enjoy my movie most.

Gopal Singh reviewed v6.5.2 on May 3, 2005

Due to International versions feature, i can have it in my own language, i hope u people also must be enjoying it in your language.

rav0 reviewed v6.5.2 on Apr 12, 2005

this will soun dlike a hatred spam post, but it's honest opinion. RUN!!! hogs resources, gives nag screens unless you pay, steals file associations, doesn't uninstall properly, this sw is a pos

Sangeetha Varma reviewed v6.5.2 on Apr 4, 2005

Quicktime has been around for very long and i seem to liekit a lot. It's a great app..thank you

Sobel Dave reviewed v6.5.2 on Mar 28, 2005

Don't use it, my system hangs

Flower Andy reviewed v6.5.2 on Mar 23, 2005

HAven't yet used it yet but i wonder how well would an apple product work on windows

Liza Donald reviewed v6.5.2 on Mar 18, 2005

It works great on my MAC

fiftycal reviewed v6.5.2 on Oct 27, 2004

I can't believe Apple is persisting with this line of awful, bloated software. I hope that they learn from the increasing popularity of QuickTime Alternative and realize people don't want to be forced into an awful media player. Just relent and release a public codec, Apple. The world will thank you for it.

Zulithe reviewed v6.5.2 on Oct 27, 2004

Wow Quicktime itself is over 12megs now!? Might as well just download iTunes, it comes bunlded with the latest Quicktime. Quicktime is a necessary evil, especially if you watch movie trailers. Aside from playing the proprietary .MOV format I find very little use for it, same goes for iTunes. The software is totally bloated and performs poorly in Windows. I'm sure the Mac versions are better, but as if I would ever buy one of those :P

zridling reviewed v6.5.2 on Oct 26, 2004

For what it does, QT does it well. .MOV and MP4 are both high-quality formats with which I never have any trouble.

donpacman reviewed v6.5.2 on Oct 26, 2004

I know Apple can do better than this QuickTime junk. "QuickTime only hurts Apple"

ehn reviewed v6.5.2 on Oct 26, 2004

I like this program because it doesn't strive to be an all inclusive media center, but just a simple quicktime player. It has never supported the wide range of formats out there and I doubt it ever will. It does seem to have out of memory errors when I have several IE windows open with QT video files embedded within each for some reason. This problem has plagued me since the 6 series.

Aires, export to AVI is there still.

jastonas reviewed v6.5.2 on Oct 26, 2004

really is this the worst movie player ever ot what?! its been said a lot of times but.. it just SUX!
thank god we have mpc and qt codecs.... = quicktime alternative!
i really hate this program... 12mbs for nothing! hate it...
real player is much better... real one might be huge (;p) but it offers more than qt. Still, i prefer mpc.
And the thing is i dont think there is anyone out there who would prefer qt or real over media player classic! lets try to make mpc more poppular guys..

Aires reviewed v6.5.2 on Oct 26, 2004

QT 6.5.1 removed the option to save a file as an avi. So I'll give 6.5.1 and 6.5.2 a one star rating and stick to 6.5 until it's reintroduced thanks.

blackpages reviewed v6.5.1 on May 12, 2004

'save movies in disk cache' does not function in Opera and Mozilla. Can save streams to disk unlike Real Player and Microsoft Media Player.

roj reviewed v6.5.1 on Apr 29, 2004

Now what does this beast add? Lossless? Got ape and flac - the de facto standards. Better AAC? Got ogg and no DRM besides. iTunes junk? You're kidding right? I'm not stupid enough to pay for downloaded music that costs the same as lossless content on CD while being lossy. New video codecs? Got enough of those with DivX, XviD, On2CP3, et. al. Thanks but Quicktime Alternative is a much more sane approach.

cricri_pingouin reviewed v6.5.1 on Apr 29, 2004

Hi! I'd like to point out that like several other people here, I would highly recommend QuickTime Alternative instead of the original package that this is.
I did try QuickTime several versions from 3.x up to 6.x, and I was disappointed with it. Not only is it slow (I won't say it's bloated since it doesn't seem to offer that many options), but on several occasions it proved to be unstable (I do not suggest that this is the case for everybody, but on the machines I tried it on, the 6.x builds happened to be indeed unstable).
I understand that QuickTime Alternative might not be 100% legal (albeit there doesn't seem to be any legal actions going on), but from my experience, it beats QuickTime hands down. Oh, and there's only a free version available, no pay-30-bucks-for-the-pro licence.

Zulithe reviewed v6.5.1 on Apr 28, 2004

Must-have for trailer watchers. Note that you do not need to install Quicktime if you also use iTunes because iTunes comes bundled with the latest version (6.5.1)

Enamour reviewed v6.5 on Jan 31, 2004

Very slow loading and it need of a facelift more then any program out there.

dr_goodbytes reviewed v6.5 on Dec 19, 2003

good program, i haven't any problems with it...can't think of anything else to say :)

guti reviewed v6.5 on Dec 18, 2003

Very bloated.
Very slow loading.

goFurShELF reviewed v6.4 on Nov 10, 2003

good but lacking many features...not many bugs, though and okay codec handling for the codecs it does support (few)...subjectively, I use this player when the others fail...I would download it's free version, but I will never pay for it. I hope that helps!

BillBraskey reviewed v6.4 on Oct 17, 2003

The video quality is excellent, the software is horrible. Stick with QuickTime Alternative.

Zulithe reviewed v6.4 on Oct 16, 2003

Love Quicktime :) If you like to watch trailers over the internet Quicktime is a MUST! NOTE: If you install the latest version of iTunes for Windows it automatically includes Quicktime 6.4 so no need to download seperately

virtorio reviewed v6.4 on Oct 16, 2003

I'm no expert, but that just might be the trailer seeing how the progress bar is at about 40% and its only 39 secconds in.

linkdup reviewed v6.4 on Oct 16, 2003

LOL

no no, thats one of those new fangled thingies. I think I heard someone call it a TRAILER ;)

donpacman reviewed v6.3 on Aug 10, 2003

QT is OK but... The two Towers hasn't been released yet??? That's a pirate video from Apple!!! >:-))

Blue_Horse reviewed v6.3 on Jun 3, 2003

For those who are having problems stopping the "Quick Time Task" from continuously inserting itself you the list of your startup programs, you might want to try Mike Lin's FREEware "Startup Control Panel" available from the FileForum's as version 2.7 and from Mike's site as version 2.8. Be sure to just deselect the startup file and NOT to delete it. Seems to work just fine for me.

jpmccord reviewed v6.3 on Jun 3, 2003

Quicktime is a good program, but it lacks the features that other Windows multimedia (specifically video) players have. Apple needs to make its Quicktime video available as a codec download separately from Quicktime pro -- older versions, any way. It is silly that after all these years I must not only install a player, but use that specific player, just to watch movies of a particular file type. (Of course, that said, I think Windows Media Player should come with a simple standard DV decoder...)

Anacific reviewed v6.3 on Jun 3, 2003

If only there was another way to watch QuickTime videos :[ Even though it's stable and pretty and all that, it's still bloated to the point where it takes forever to start this behemoth on my 1.2 GHz TB. I want to watch a video, not some silly eye-candy (which can be accomplished a lot better with Style XP. I'm not sure why it takes so long for this to start though. Maybe it has nothing to do with the GUI....

nickpowers101 reviewed v6.3 on Jun 3, 2003

The best program out there to view QuickTime files. Rock solid and stable. Absolutely superb.

franzj reviewed v6.3 on Jun 3, 2003

On the Windows platform Windows Media Player 9 is a much better program. I can't say anything about the Apple version of Quicktime, but on Windows its not that good. I have tried Quicktime numerous times during every release since its inception, but even now I don't think it's a very good program. One example of my beef: compare the window resizing options and functionality (particularly fullscreen) between Quicktime 6 and WMP9.

RobertM reviewed v6.3 on Jun 3, 2003

The menus (apparently made from images instead of grabbing them from the operating system) look quite ugly on XP. Also, does the screenshot look like OS X to anyone? :-) But that aside, I think this player is quite nice. Apple normally makes good software...

phrentec reviewed v6.1 on May 21, 2003

now they just need to make a realmedia/realone alternative. like with all the codecs etc.

nickpowers101 reviewed v6.0.2 on Oct 18, 2002

rock solid and stable... version 6 is the best version yet...

kjdenison reviewed v6.0.2 on Oct 18, 2002

Quicktime is absolutley a great program for all video formats. You have to remember that this isn't a media player like Windows Media Player. It strictly focusus on Video because Appple uses itunes as its media player. Apple is by far much better than windows. Ive tried both and there is no way i would go back to windows. Quicktime runs beatifully and is easy to use. Keep up the good work!

ditoa reviewed v6 Final on Jul 17, 2002

Kessen: true quality is better than Windows Media 7 but not 8! QuickTime is nice, it has good quality but the player is not as good as Windows Media Player (6.4 and 7/8) in my opinion. WMP7/8 has never crashed on me but QT5/6 has. Also WMV8 is amazing, also QT6 is no way near the quality of DivX, obviously you have so badly made DivX rips! Gets 4 as it is ok but not the best. Check out DivX or WM8

james1958 reviewed v6 Final on Jul 16, 2002

Machine resources are taken away when playing videos.
Just interfaces is now similar to OSX nothing that fancy.
And all this hype for such bloated product.

Kessen reviewed v6 Final on Jul 16, 2002

Quicktime 6 has the same excellent quality as divx, only qt6 can do the streaming on the web. Quality is better than qt5 and way better than windows media 7.

mbear reviewed v6 Public Preview on Jun 4, 2002

First off this is a "Technology Preview" - NOT a final finished shipping product! Speed, load, memory, etc. those are all the *last* to be addressed in a development cycle. Wait for a release candidate before commenting on them, for now the issue is basic functioniality.

That said this runs pretty well. Again, it's likely to get polished before release but on the couple of Mac & PC platforms I've tried this on it works fine. Various speed machines running a couple permutations of Win9x & NT-derivatives, MacOS & MacOS X it runs decently on all of them.

The interface is no worse then any other player's out there, the functionality is the greatest. It speaks virtually everything out there, includes Apple's licensed Soronson codec as well as the first full implementation of Mpeg4 ("Divx :-)" and others are partials.) SMIL is there, RTSP streaming, basic editing, even Flash 5 & Jpeg2000. It can interoperate with Java and seems a team player with other applications.

Best feature? That anywhere there is support for Quicktime there's now Mpeg 4 along with all of the other QT6 codecs, file formats, etc. Pretty kewl. Also that the server is free, open source, so far requires no licensing (we'll see what comes of the Mpeg 4 talks) and supports unlimited streams.

Oh, and yeah, the "Pro" version will require a license. Tough boogers - if you want all of the goodies the basic player is free but the Pro will cost money. And yes, if you had a license for 5 then apparently you'll require a new license for 6. Actually I don't know that this will be true: In the past Apple has allowed licenses from one rev past to work on the next, but no further. Thus v.3 licenses worked in 3 & 4 but not 5, v.4 licenses worked in 4 & 5, I don't beleive that any final statement has been made if v.5 licenses will carry forward into v.6 (but of course not ones from before 5.) That Apple would not honor all previous licenses is no suprise - no other like vendor offers free other upgrades between full version jumps. And yes, this is a significent upgrade.

So my review - a big thumbs up. So far it doesn't appear broken in any big way. While not as snappy as I'd like it on the low end boxes it isn't awful (and certianly less of a pig already then the more recent WMP releases). If anyone can point to anything not working please post it, and fer heavens sake include the platform and OS you're on. In the meantime I'm looking forward to seeing the final release soon, I'm betting at MacWorld NY in mid-July.

KAMiKAZOW reviewed v6 Public Preview on Jun 4, 2002

QuickTime (the format) is cool. While I don't like the QuickTime Player, there's also the recource-friendly browser-plugin. If anybody does not have enough recources for the player, just associate QuickTime files with IE and use the browser-plugin.

swoon reviewed v5.0 on Apr 26, 2001

Does play Movies. But sucks up the machine. Also takes too long to load. I have played movies faster with BeOS on a much slower machine, even multiple movies at the same time.
Also Apple's Update idea "if your pro key doesn't work buy a new one" is ridiculous. Not even an ugrade available.
Do I really need to have a Dual-P IV @ 2 GHz + 1 GB RAM + lots of HDDs to play just a tiny movie??

godote reviewed v5.0 on Apr 24, 2001

no problem on my machine...
PIII 550 with 256mb ram, ie6 beta, win2k pro

Tinestram reviewed v5.0 on Apr 24, 2001

It's a nice idea, but putting file security on Win9X is like putting a padlock on a skateboard.

rogerdata reviewed v5.0 Public Preview 2 on Dec 10, 2000

Hmm..! I really wonder what the problem is? I have a Ahtlon 707 thunderbird, 128 meg of ram, and a Voodoo 5 5500, Running Win ME. No problems! ?? Same thing with Netscape 6 it just takes like 4 seconds to start?

Tridus reviewed v4.1.2 on May 23, 2000

Yet another lousy player... of coures this time its a shame, since the underlying technology of quicktime is really good. Yet they put it in a huge and absolutly horrifically ugly player (doesn't anybody make normal decent looking software anymore?) that tries to take over extensions and browser configurations all over the place. I'm still trying to undo the damage it caused to my configuration.

Here's a tip for the developers... *ask* me if I want you to take over everything.

carlrjr reviewed v4.1.2 on May 23, 2000

Slick interface, but after the first time a web page plays a movie (such as adcritic.com) I have to restart my PC to see another movie; I get audio only after the first one.