Earlier this morning, we noted that QuickTime 6 lacked MPEG-2 playback as was in the public preview. Several readers have mentioned that MPEG-2 playback is still supported, but as an added feature ($20) to QuickTime Pro. "What it doesn't give you, and should however, is the ability to encode files into the format. You still would have to purchase DVDSP to gain that ability."
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That's the message I get from this awful MacWorld.
You want iTools? Oh, we've "improved" it. It's now dot-Mac, and it's $100/year.
You want MPEG-2 decoding? $20. What, you want to be able to use it on both OS9 *and* OSX? Another $20.
You want a working OSX? It's called Jaguar, but you'll have to fork out another $130 (after the $100 you paid for the unusable 10.0 and the extra $100 to get the barely usable 10.1)
Where is it going to end? Right now I'm so fed up with Apple I'm very, very seriously considering switching to Linux.
Enough. I'm sick and tired of sticking with Apple through thick and thin, and now we're waiting for CPU parity and we're left in the dust with slow CPUs, slow busses, antiquated architectures (PC133 RAM? come ON!!!!)
No S*** the XServes aren't selling. You can put together an Athlon box at 1/3rd the price and get better performance.
Enough is enough. We want results, not candy-colored machines, walkmans, and cycle-wasting ridiculous-looking Aqua. Fast is where it's at.
if you paid $100 for 10.0 AND paid another $100 for 10.1 then you are stupider than i ever thought possible.
I agree that $130 is a bit pricey for what amounts to a *true* version 1 release (10.0 - 10.1 was for all intents and purposes the public beta period... putting the software in the hands of the people so the developers will know what they're looking at), i'm still going to buy it becaus the improvements are significant enough that i wouldn't be able to justify NOT buying it.
as to MPEG 2... what do you NEED MPEG 2 playback for? oh... watching ripped DVDs. chalk the $20 per OS up to money you didn't have to spend on rental/late fees and shut the @#$% up.
If, however, you've spent the $1000 on DVD Studio Pro to get the ENcoder they should throw down the DEcoder for free. it's ridiculous not being able to check the file anywhere but in DVD SP and it's less than perfect preview (although 1.5 is pretty good).
Steve is taking full charge of everything!
Dude or Dudette(no real username), Apple should be buying your meals...maybe they are. eee had a good point, but you decided to bust em up. Well you sound like the kind of lemming that apple needs to survive. Keep hanging on every word your master steve spews.
eee's point is good. In the intel based world if M$ angers you, you can quickly switch to a powerful linux OS. In the mac hardware world you are screwed. This is the first of many money making schemes apple will cook up. Get you wallet out. If you cant grow market share you can always milk your lemmings for every last dime.
So could someone please put the MPEG2 encoder on their public iDisk? :D
i was totally kissing apple's a** in that post. it was so cute how you said i should be apple's employee or *oops* already am.
i said they guy is stupid for paying $100 for something that was given away for free.
i said i didn't like the price of the jaguar upgrade but i'd buy it because i can't justify not buying it (because it's finally useable)
i said apple basically charged us $130 and a year of our lives for a beta version of the OS.
i said only pirates and dvd authors need .m2v decoders and that the dvd authors should get the tool for free with their $1000 program. pirates should pay and not complain.
at what point did eee say anything that was anything but hyperbole? he was fuming and i pointed out inaccuracies in a couple things he was whining about.
if you don't like what apple is doing, don't buy into it. don't blame yr inability to control yr wallet on apple's desire to make money. Nobody has a gun to your head.
even that $20 MPEG 2 decoder isn't an *essential* purchase for DVD Studio Pro owners... DVDSP handles it fairly well...it would be nice to be able to play the file in quicktime player but it's not essential. is it worth $20 to me? no. so i'm not going to buy it. see? did that sound difficult? it's a concept called "free thought" and it comes standard on must humans.
who CARES whether or not yr pissed off at apple and boohoo you don't have another operating system choice... you can run darwin on yr mac, you can run linux on yr mac... just do it already and shut the @#$% up. that'll show 'em...
personally, i'd rather pay more and enjoy the time i spend on my computer. linux has its purposes... desktop computing is not one of 'em.
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That's the message I get from this awful MacWorld.
You want iTools? Oh, we've "improved" it. It's now dot-Mac, and it's $100/year.
You want MPEG-2 decoding? $20. What, you want to be able to use it on both OS9 *and* OSX? Another $20.
You want a working OSX? It's called Jaguar, but you'll have to fork out another $130 (after the $100 you paid for the unusable 10.0 and the extra $100 to get the barely usable 10.1)
Where is it going to end? Right now I'm so fed up with Apple I'm very, very seriously considering switching to Linux.
Enough. I'm sick and tired of sticking with Apple through thick and thin, and now we're waiting for CPU parity and we're left in the dust with slow CPUs, slow busses, antiquated architectures (PC133 RAM? come ON!!!!)
No S*** the XServes aren't selling. You can put together an Athlon box at 1/3rd the price and get better performance.
Enough is enough. We want results, not candy-colored machines, walkmans, and cycle-wasting ridiculous-looking Aqua. Fast is where it's at.