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Quicktime cant support the most basic function ofa playlist?

Feb 4, 2005 4:24AM PST

I'v got some course material split into about 25 quicktime movies of about 2 - 5mins each, now i wanted to play them in sequence so i dont have to keep opening each file manually, however there seems to be no way at all to do this in quicktime, i'v even got the pro version!!.

is there any way around this?, like maybe creating a "quicktime" version of a .asf file which lists the sources or anything at all similar, as right now its very difficult to learn while keep switching videos.

Any help appreciated

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XP
Feb 4, 2005 7:16PM PST

the OS is XP if that helps.
this is getting so annoying, I bet so many ppl have this prob, apple need to get get there act together :/

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I must ask.
Feb 4, 2005 9:43PM PST

Did you call them about this issue?

You paid dearly for the priviledge.

Bob

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issue.
Feb 5, 2005 12:25AM PST

I'm not even sure its an issue, the program doesnt appear to support it at all, nothing mentioned in the help files either.
just trying to find info on if I can create quicktimes version of an asx file or something so it will play it in order, this is taking up too much time.

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No call?
Feb 5, 2005 3:18AM PST

This is not a cheap package. It's worth the phone call. Sometims you get lucky and they have a solution. I don't know this package except in a very superficial way.

Bob

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Forget Apple!
Apr 9, 2005 9:33AM PDT

QT is nice in certain cases, if you want do presentations, see for example the embeded playlist (qtnext, ask google for pageot, this tool is free!) at http://gurke.bootlab.org/~uzs106/bla/testloop.html .

But if you just want plain simple ASCII playlists in the sense of series of URLs:

mplayer (mplayer -playlist) is available for XP too, see www.mplayerhq.hu , or if you prefer VLC get that or get boths.

Both players display H264 as well btw (aka AVC), local from your harddrive and http://bla/h264.mp4s, if this is interesting for you, if you want rtsp://bla/h264.mp4s you have to wait for QT7, but it will come without MPEG Video this plain playlist support.

I had the same problem some years ago, wrote a shellscript for mtvp (allthough, as I later found out)
it would have worked with WMP as well (MPEG 1 Video Playlist), ask google for video/vnd.mpegurl.

Now I am waiting Wink


H.


http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/soft.html etc....

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Why didn't we just google it?
Feb 5, 2005 4:34AM PST
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Tried that
Feb 5, 2005 5:50AM PST

Rob google is my first port of call Grin
the problem was that its all OSx software (while i'm running XP)

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Refined that and ..
Feb 5, 2005 6:04AM PST
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doh
Feb 5, 2005 6:43AM PST

doh, sorry I shoulda seen that.
hmm, great, more money I gotta spend, its just not worth it.. I'm going to be advising everyone i know, AVOID quicktime, I even heard they want you go get there premium version of the player just go view fullscreen.

Thx for the help

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try this
Feb 22, 2005 5:22PM PST
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mplayer (mplayer -playlist)
Apr 9, 2005 9:15AM PDT

All reasonable MPEG Video Players do support playlists, in most cases there is a hardcoded extension, see VLCs m3u and pls, see Ciscos MPEG4IP mp4players m4u and mxu (etc), but the most flexible player for Macs is the open source mplayer (mplayer -playlist), see also xine and maybe others on Unix (xine -P). You dont have to care about extensions in the browser cache, if you want to associate the player with a MIME type for the web.


H.


http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/moritz.html etc....

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Grandma Apple wants to know it better?
Apr 9, 2005 9:07AM PDT

See a discussion of this topic at http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/testbed.html etc.

You can embed "playlists" for MPEG Video in webpages, you can use SMIL, and you have MPEG Audio Playlists for MPEG Audio, but no simple vendor and platform independent series of URLs for MPEG Video, Apple hides the video in MPEG Audio Playlists, looks like an artificial restriction...

Well, missing divx.avi support in the QT Player, no mp3 audio in mp4s, "client side DRM" in iTunes etc, do you want more? Wink

H.