Re: Perian Update

2008-12-22 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Will S wrote: Quote VLC is a nice media player, for the specific small subset of codecs it handles, but it can also be VERY crashy and is often much more CPU intensive than QuickTime. As for not needing QuickTime... Um... So you're saying that you NEVER EVER

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-22 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 22, 2008, at 3:22 PM, insightinmind wrote: On my Tiger 10.4.11 Yikes!, I recently lost Quicktime playback in Firefox looking at myspace. Tried turning it off and back on in Prefs. Clarification: They're actually links to youtube, which happen to be Quicktime clips. QT is showing up

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-22 Thread Dan
At 3:22 PM -0500 12/22/2008, insightinmind wrote: On my Tiger 10.4.11 Yikes!, I recently lost Quicktime playback in Firefox looking at myspace. Tried turning it off and back on in Prefs. QT Requests shows up ok in Safari, so its not myspace ... Relative to this thread, I recently did several

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-22 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 22, 2008, at 6:34 PM, insightinmind wrote: On Dec 22, 2008, at 4:23 PM, technophobic_...@comcast.net wrote: On 12/22/08, insightinmind wrote: On my Tiger 10.4.11 Yikes!, I recently lost Quicktime playback in Firefox looking at myspace. Tried turning it off and back on in

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On my Tiger 10.4.11 Yikes!, I recently lost Quicktime playback in Firefox looking at MySpace. This isn't a QuickTime issue, or a Perian issue. MySpace uses a different player called FIM Media Player (FIM=FOX Interactive Media) which is related to the player that FOX Network uses on the

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-22 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 22, 2008, at 10:33 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On my Tiger 10.4.11 Yikes!, I recently lost Quicktime playback in Firefox looking at MySpace. This isn't a QuickTime issue, or a Perian issue. Apologies for hijacking this thread. I solved the problem. I had placed some Adblocks on a

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-18 Thread Hunter Fuller
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Re: Perian Update

2008-12-18 Thread Dan
At 8:29 AM -0600 12/18/2008, Hunter Fuller wrote: As for not needing QuickTime... Um... So you're saying that you NEVER EVER view any graphics or video of any type in any application on your Mac, except within VLC. Hint: It's all QuickTime. ALL. Well, then I suppose I can say that I

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-18 Thread Will S
Quote VLC is a nice media player, for the specific small subset of codecs it handles, but it can also be VERY crashy and is often much more CPU intensive than QuickTime. As for not needing QuickTime... Um... So you're saying that you NEVER EVER view any graphics or video of any type in any

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-18 Thread Hunter Fuller
2008/12/18 Dan dantear...@gmail.com: At 8:29 AM -0600 12/18/2008, Hunter Fuller wrote: As for not needing QuickTime... Um... So you're saying that you NEVER EVER view any graphics or video of any type in any application on your Mac, except within VLC. Hint: It's all QuickTime. ALL.

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-18 Thread Dan
At 2:23 PM -0600 12/18/2008, Hunter Fuller wrote: and I know Firefox doesn't use QuickTime to render anything. Sorry. That is incorrect. The graphics libraries in OS X all use primatives from QuickTime. That would be why Firefox has the QuickTime framework, and all its sub pieces, mapped

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-18 Thread Hunter Fuller
2008/12/18 Dan dantear...@gmail.com: At 2:23 PM -0600 12/18/2008, Hunter Fuller wrote: and I know Firefox doesn't use QuickTime to render anything. Sorry. That is incorrect. The graphics libraries in OS X all use primatives from QuickTime. That would be why Firefox has the QuickTime

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-17 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 17, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: For anyone using Perian (and that should be everyone using Quicktime and running 10.4.7 and higher), they just updated it to 1.1.3. You can update from your Preference Pane or http://perian.org/. And, yes, this is an open source project with

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-17 Thread Will S
You could also just skip Perian and Quicktime all together. VLC easy to find with a Google search works great much better then Quicktime even with the Persian update. I've decided to do just that for my new 10.5.5 OS on a new partition. I've not needed Quicktime with or without add ons for

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-17 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 17, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Will S wrote: You could also just skip Perian and Quicktime all together. VLC easy to find with a Google search works great much better then Quicktime even with the Persian update. I've decided to do just that for my new 10.5.5 OS on a new partition. I've not

Re: Perian Update

2008-12-17 Thread Dan
At 4:39 PM -0800 12/17/2008, Will S wrote: You could also just skip Perian and Quicktime all together. VLC easy to find with a Google search works great much better then Quicktime even with the Persian update. I've decided to do just that for my new 10.5.5 OS on a new partition. I've not needed