Re: QuickTime Player in Lion

2012-05-01 Thread Alan Smith
Thanks Neil You've opened up some lines of enquiry for me. And I can drop an upgrade to Lion to the bottom my priority list. Yes, unwrapping should be a simple solution. I posted a query to WAMUG on 31 April "iViewFox and FLVUncontainer" but had no responses.FLVUncontainer stopped wo

Re: QuickTime Player in Lion

2012-05-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Alan, I am not sure what is causing your problem but I run Snow Leopard and have no such problems. My setup: OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8 QuickTime Player 10.0 (131) Perian 1.2.2 I have many downloaded iView programs which all happily play in QuickTime Player, or iTunes or direct from the finder w

Re: QuickTime Player in Lion

2012-04-30 Thread Alan Smith
Thanks Carlo Your comments were appreciated but do not get me closer to resolution. I appreciate that MP4 is just a container for a variety of video and audio formats. As an end user I had hoped not be be involved in codecs: filename extensions are complex enough! One difficulty is that co

Re: QuickTime Player in Lion

2012-04-30 Thread cm
And here is a knowledge base article about QuickTime X http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3775 C Sent from my iPad On 30/04/2012, at 17:08, Alan Smith wrote: > Does QuickTime Player in OS Lion play MP4 videos natively? Or with an added > component? > > MPEG-4 videos do not play in OS Snow Le

Re: QuickTime Player in Lion

2012-04-30 Thread cm
Hi Alen, mp4 is a container format, which means it can contain audio and video encoded with almost any codec - alas, even Adobe Flash. So in answer to your question it depends entirely on the encoding of the contained audio and video. Cheers, Carlo Sent from my iPad On 30/04/2012, at 17:08, A

QuickTime Player in Lion

2012-04-30 Thread Alan Smith
Does QuickTime Player in OS Lion play MP4 videos natively? Or with an added component? MPEG-4 videos do not play in OS Snow Leopard, even with Perian installed.I can view these MP4's with VLC or can transcode them to iTunes with Handbrake, but I would prefer the default QT player. Six