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Old Debate: QT vs WMP

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Not sure about formats, but as far as players go I prefer QuickTime. For one, QuickTime allows you to "step forward" (or backward) through the clip (that is, you can move the locator thingy along the time bar and it will show each frame as you go). WMP allows you to move the locator thingy, but it doesn't show each frame as you move (sorry if that doesn't make sense, but I don't know what any of those elements are called... you know, the "locator thingy" and "time bar"). As for playback, I like to have as much control over that as possible. I'm not sure what you mean by "stream as it is stopped," but I like to be able to stop my video, move forward and backward, etc. Some sites that have embedded video don't allow you to go forward or backward, and that annoys me. In the end, I think the user should have full control over the playback. So, that's mostly from the user point-of-view, and it's a limited point-of-view, but there you have it. [Edit: Clarification on the streaming video thing. I do [b]not[/b] like streaming video. I was just trying to watch a video clip, and it would buffer, play a little, then stop while it rebuffered, then play a little more, then stop again, then play, then stop, and on and on. My connection speed tends to lag a lot at times, so the buffer is never enough to play a clip through to the end (in fact it's rarely more than enough to play for five seconds). With a non-streaming video I can hit pause and go do something else until the whole thing loads (like on Google videos or YouTube). But with streaming video if you hit pause it just stops and doesn't continue loading. I am correct with my understanding of streaming video here, no? If so, then I can definitely say that I [b]detest[/b] streaming video. It pretty much makes video clips unwatchable for me. Personally, I do not understand the advantages of streaming video. Does it save bandwidth? Is it harder to steal? It still sucks. End of rant.] [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/suho_umbrella04.gif[/img] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2031]Suho1004[/url] on 08-25-2006 04:43)[/small] Loading...
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