[geeks] Walgreens software, was Quicktime 7 Pro missing stuff?

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> My problems with Quicktime is that two installations on two different 
> Windows machines has failed.  On one machine it hangs in the installer, 
> on the other it simply will not run.  Nothing I've tried seems to help, 
> and from what I've read other people see the same two issues.  I think 
> the software is just broken, or maybe the installer is.
> 
> I might just forget it, and use something else.  The interface sucks, 
> and it is a resource hog most of the time.  It also does stupid crap 
> like install qttask.exe *EVERY DAMN TIME IT RUNS* even if you turned it 
> off, makes HTTP connections and runs scripts embedded in video files, 
> and has DRM.
...
> It would be nice if we could get video players that just played video, 
> and did so reliably.

Tried mplayer?  I'm pretty sure most of the .mov files I have play fine
in mplayer.


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