How do Windows users feel abvout H.264 videos?

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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.