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I upgrade to QT7 and suddenly ProTools doesn't work, or maybe an older version of Final Cut Pro, or I gotta go hunt down a bunch of drivers or something.
#Sorenson squeeze dead software
But I'm not necessarily ready to upgrade every piece of software i have just to be on QT7 now (which I'm not). QT is in many ways the backbone of my media workstation, which is running like 15 different apps that rely upon it. FLV, SWF, MOV, WMV, etc all require different players on the user's end, yet are created with the same tool.Īnd to Adam's point, there are very good reasons why people don't have the latest version of Quicktime on any particular day. Yes, you use the app Sorenson Squeeze to create the Flash video, but you can create an MOV or WMV with the Sorenson codec as well, so they're not really the same when you consider what's required to play them. I know many people are not going to be able to access stuff on the site (yeah, like they'd die if they didn't see some crappy music video of mine. I've now coded all my films on my website in H264 which needs 7.
#Sorenson squeeze dead install
Half of them are still on Win98 and then they wonder why they're QT7 doesn't play the latest trailers in HD? Seriously, how hard is it to install QT7. I don't want to point the dirty finger in any specific direction, but it seems that Microsoft users are the main culprits in this area. QT7, or whatever media player one chooses, are FREE and can be installed in a second. But it's extremely efficient when it comes to file size. I like On2 a lot, but it requires Flash8 Player (too new for many people) and right now I can only do single-pass with it. Actually, if you're looking for the widest compatibility, forget both of them and create SWF movies, cuz Flash Player is on more browsers than either QT or WM. I stick with Sorenson3 for this reason for now. One problem is that not a ton of people are on QT7 yet, so I personally would avoid H.264 unless you know exactly who your audience is. It's good to see that HD-DVD will (optionally) use the codec, though. Actually, they're standing on the shoulders of giants and pissing down the backs of their necks - MPEG-4 is great, but Microsoft didn't develop it they just bound it up in proprietary drivel and tried to stop people using it for what they really wanted.Ĭomputing in general has plummeted downhill in this regard since the release of Windows XP, and the trend looks set to continue. Microsoft released Windows Media, er, was it 7 with the MPEG-4 codec locked out of making AVI movies - you could only create windows media format, with the resulting impression that Windows Media is great. The technology exists to do web video simply and very very well, but it's being tied up by politics and greed. This is one area of computing that is really being clobbered by the increasinly overt commercialism of OS manufacturers and the machinations of outfits like the RIAA as they try to influence the development of technology.
#Sorenson squeeze dead manual
The problem is that none of these are as easily deployable as Quicktime, even Windows Media 9 is hidebound by obviously platform-partisan commercialist maneuvering and the AVI codecs, while excellent, often require manual installation since Microsoft refuse to make a codec that supports them available to Media Player via the automatic codec download mechanism. There are opensource solutions (of iffy, or sometimes downright black-hat legality) for both encode and decode. Windows Media 9 (which is sort of largely more or less MPEG-4) is superbly good, whatever you think of Microsoft, and a number of the free Windows AVI codecs (DivX, Xvid) are good, especially in 2-pass VBR. There are many excellent MPEG-4 encoders. PS - Oh, by the way, the H.264 encoder in Quicktime 7 is abysmal.Ī lot of people are just sticking with Sorenson for this reason, Sorenson being based on what the MPEG-4 working group were proposing in the mid-90s.
#Sorenson squeeze dead for mac
In preference, the open standard would be more universally playable, especially now Apple have included H.264 in Quicktime 7, now available for Mac and Windows - previously the only thing to reccommend Sorenson was that it was the best codec available for the easily-deployed Quicktime architecture. Sorenson 3 works similarly, in that macroblocks are stored as the quantised long decimal result of a discrete cosine transform, but since Sorenson have long considered the internals of the codec to be a trade secret it's difficult to be more specific than "similar to H.264", as reported by dedicated reverse-engineers. MPEG-4 is very clever indeed, continuing the progression from 1 and 2 (there is no 3) by adding still more ways to map old picture data into new picture data without having to store more than a few transform commands. H.264 is the ITU-T designation for the ISO/IEC standard MPEG-4 part 10, so in essence.