Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/26/07 23:42

Neredbojias wrote:

> The problem I had was with ie6 on a Windows machine. It was exceedlingly
> difficult to change Quicktime from being the default for certain mime
> types no matter what I did. Dunno about ie7, and for ff and opera, I
> experienced no real problem. Perhaps Sherm Pendley's method (re-
> defaulting WMP) is a quick-fix I just didn't think of, but I really can't
> remember. In any event, Jonathan N. Little has posted alterantives I
> wished I knew about before, and I'd recommend those procedures
> particularly in the case of Quicktime, which I'll never use again.
> (Quicktime/mov files are also just made for embedding ads and other non-
> user-friendly parasites of the digital persuasion.) However, keep in
> mind that a portion of the dilemma is with ie/win, too.
>

No reason not to start now, just uninstall QT and then install QTA!

I discovered both a few years back when I wanted to listen to some
online radio and they only had an RA feed. Installed RealPlayer and damn
it if it didn't grab all my media even after registry hacking to isolate
its domain RAMs... I was about to throw towel and say screw the online
radio when I discovered RealAlternative. That lead me to
QuicktimeAlternative. I dump QT too and never looked back.

As a side note. Just installed XP, I was clinging to Win2K forever...but
when I transfered some MP3 from Win2K to XP drive all was fine until my
Windows Media player upgraded to v11. Now some won't play !&^%$ DRM the
help file says something about the rights are not transfered from v9
library to v11! Well QuicktimeAlternative & RealAlternative install
Media Player Classic. Play all the MP3s and WMAs with no problems...No
it doesn't have that "Oh that's pretty but I cannot find the bleeping
controls" skin, but hey, it *plays* the media!

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Take care,

Jonathan
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