Thanks for the suggestions, one & all! Will check with the technicians at the textbook company to see what they have to say on the matter. You guys are great!
Ciao for now! Cathy GREEN ;-) Atherton HS French 3000 Dundee Rd Louisville, KY 40205 502.485.8202ext204 fax 502.485.8985 cgreen1 at jefferson.k12.ky.us > ---------- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of RobK > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:53 AM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: QuickTime question [bcc][faked-from] > [heur][bcc][faked-from] > > I can see that, there are some videos I have that won't play in QT7 but > will with 6. > > Cathy, if you upgrade to QT7, it will only overwrite the OS10 version. If > you have OS9 still installed on your machine, it will stay at 6.x. > Unfortunately, you can't have both versions operating in the same OS. > > One idea, however, have you tried any other video players? Maybe it's the > MoviePlayer that's the culprit. > > VLC is a strong media player that handles most anything. > http://www.videolan.org/ > > And I've begun using Mpeg Streamclip, a video converter, for some > hard-to-play files: > http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html > > rob > > > > On Jan 18, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Green, Cathy wrote: > > No, unfortunately, it states specifically that the materials > will not work in QT v7... > > Ciao for now! > Cathy GREEN ;-) > > Are you sure your textbook series must use **only** > QT v6.5.3? ...or might it possibly have specified requirements as "QT > v6.5.3 or greater"? > > Regards, > Russ Preston > > > On Jan 17, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Green, Cathy > wrote: > > Greetings, group! > I currently use QuickTime 6.5.3 running OS10.3.9 on > my G3iMac. If I d/l version 7, does it overwrite the older version? I > need the older version for suppport materials that came with the textbook > series that I have to use for 6 more years, but some video clips elsewhere > require version 7 to run them. Is there any way to install version 7, > while keeping version 6 intact? TIA, > > Ciao for now! > Cathy GREEN ;-) > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 > at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is . | List > posting address: | List Web page: > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060119/2174b108/attachment.html
