How do Windows users feel abvout H.264 videos?

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by Allfetish

A lot of surfers are getting weary about installing new codecs because of some using it to distribute scumware. Might be good to reiterate that the link goes to Apple, is official, and your site is free of that kind of spyware crap. Even I get a little weary now when I need to install a codec theser days.

QuickTime is my first choice but it seems like many Windows users are weary and even have a strong dislike about QuickTime. Why is that?

Some of the members to Angel's site have been asking for vids in in DiVX format which I know even less about.

Anyone have any comments on DiVX?

[MightyMidget]

Originally Posted by Cleo

QuickTime is my first choice but it seems like many Windows users are weary and even have a strong dislike about QuickTime. Why is that?

Personally I dislike it because every time I watch a QuickTime file off my harddrive I have to answer a question on whether or not I want to upgrade to the "Pro" version of QuickTime. This doesn't happen if the file plays inside the browser though. I also hate it because there is no fullscreen option on my offline player.

Originally Posted by Cleo

Some of the members to Angel's site have been asking for vids in in DiVX format which I know even less about.

Anyone have any comments on DiVX?

DivX is an AVI codec, or rather, a whole bunch of them. There's a hacked one out there that I believe is the most commonly used, but since there is no real standard I would avoid it like the plague.
A better option would be to use XVID, which I believe is a spinoff of DivX, but there is only one codec in use. XVID is more and more becoming the standard for AVI files.

[Allfetish]

Originally Posted by Cleo

QuickTime is my first choice but it seems like many Windows users are weary and even have a strong dislike about QuickTime. Why is that?

Some of the members to Angel's site have been asking for vids in in DiVX format which I know even less about.

Anyone have any comments on DiVX?

The thing with the quicktime player is that you have to wait a certain amount of time for it to initialize on windows and it can be annoying. When you factor in that people rarely use it, there is also a very high probability that it is misconfigured or not even installed.

When I use the Quicktime browser plugin on my ie7 -- to give you an idea -- wait a couple minutes and then this video plays in a window, oh, probably about 2" x 2" on my screen. Before this a giant "Q" comes up in that space. And if I am unlucky or something is wrong with the file, it appears as a broken Q. I once went into IE to try to figure out how to stop Quicktime from playing videos within the browser because it annoyed me so much but I gave up after ten minutes of searching. I'm sure there is a way. But I am pretty tech literate so I presume if I cannot find it that easily your average surfer probably cannot either. I get the feeling that Quicktime works a lot better on the mac platform?

Divx is okay. A lot of people who use windows use this to play divx on Windows:

http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/player/

But personally I like plain old good quality mpeg for video.

[emmanuelle]

Originally Posted by Cleo

QuickTime is my first choice but it seems like many Windows users are weary and even have a strong dislike about QuickTime. Why is that?

Apart from the annoyances mentioned by the others in this thread, I find Quicktime to be intrusive. Every time I open a quicktime file, the client welds itself to my startup menu and taskbar.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by emmanuelle

Apart from the annoyances mentioned by the others in this thread, I find Quicktime to be intrusive. Every time I open a quicktime file, the client welds itself to my startup menu and taskbar.

Which is exactly why I don't have it installed on my system.