QT Recommendation

I've developed some problems with Quicktime Alternative that I can't seem to
correct (crashes 100% of the time opening mov files), so I'm going to try
the ultimate workaround of deleting it and installing Quicktime. What is the
best version for Win98SE? I would define "best" as the last version of QT
for 98 that really works well. Since I'd expect that the poster would have
it installed, I'd also appreciate information on security patches, if any,
that should be installed as a follow-up.

Roger Fink wrote:
I've developed some problems with Quicktime Alternative that I can't seem to
correct (crashes 100% of the time opening mov files), so I'm going to try
the ultimate workaround of deleting it and installing Quicktime. What is the
best version for Win98SE? I would define "best" as the last version of QT
for 98 that really works well. Since I'd expect that the poster would have
it installed, I'd also appreciate information on security patches, if any,
that should be installed as a follow-up.



I've got 6.5.2 installed (I think this is the last version for 98), and
it's never crashed on me, so you could be OK.

I've never seen standalone security patches for QT; I always assumed
that whichever ones may have been needed would have been part of the
next version.

Bear in mind that more recent encoding methods for .mov files (I can't
remember what they're called - H.something) won't play in anything short
of v7 (which won't run on 98).

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Nigel Stapley

www.judgemental.plus.com

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Roger Fink wrote:
I've developed some problems with Quicktime Alternative that I can't seem to
correct (crashes 100% of the time opening mov files), so I'm going to try
the ultimate workaround of deleting it and installing Quicktime. What is the
best version for Win98SE? I would define "best" as the last version of QT
for 98 that really works well. Since I'd expect that the poster would have
it installed, I'd also appreciate information on security patches, if any,
that should be installed as a follow-up.



I've got 6.5.2 installed (I think this is the last version for 98), and it's never
crashed on me, so you could be OK.


Same here....6.5.2.10 to be exact.....this is the last version that works in
Win98SE.


I've never seen standalone security patches for QT; I always assumed that
whichever ones may have been needed would have been part of the next version.

Bear in mind that more recent encoding methods for .mov files (I can't remember
what they're called - H.something) won't play in anything short of v7 (which won't
run on 98).

I didn't know that (I rarely use QT)....thanks for the info.
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

glee wrote:


Same here....6.5.2.10 to be exact.....this is the last version that
works in Win98SE.

Hmm...the 'About' panel in mine doesn't show the last part of that. But
given that it has never found any updates for it, I assume it's the
'end-of-the-road' version as well.

Bear in mind that more recent encoding methods for .mov files (I can't
remember what they're called - H.something) won't play in anything
short of v7 (which won't run on 98).

I didn't know that (I rarely use QT)....thanks for the info.

YW. H.264, it's called. QT v7 won't run on anything older than W2K or XP.

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Regards

Nigel Stapley

www.judgemental.plus.com

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Nigel Stapley wrote:
Roger Fink wrote:
I've developed some problems with Quicktime Alternative that I can't
seem to correct (crashes 100% of the time opening mov files), so I'm
going to try the ultimate workaround of deleting it and installing
Quicktime. What is the best version for Win98SE? I would define
"best" as the last version of QT for 98 that really works well.
Since I'd expect that the poster would have it installed, I'd also
appreciate information on security patches, if any, that should be
installed as a follow-up.



I've got 6.5.2 installed (I think this is the last version for 98),
and
it's never crashed on me, so you could be OK.

I've never seen standalone security patches for QT; I always assumed
that whichever ones may have been needed would have been part of the
next version.

Bear in mind that more recent encoding methods for .mov files (I can't
remember what they're called - H.something) won't play in anything
short
of v7 (which won't run on 98).

OK thanks for that.

The situation with QT-alt, which was OK not that long ago, was much worse
than I thought. I didn't even have to open anything with it; merely trying
to close it crashed Windows. So I tried to uninstall it through add-remove
and also IIRC its own uninstaller and it crashed Windows. I was making the
psychological adjustment one does before a manual program delete when I
decided to try uninstalling it in safe mode. I even got an error message
there, but thankfully it did go through with the uninstall.

So now, with the machine wiped clean of QT plug-ins and errant Explorer and
registry entries, I'm going to try QT-alt again. If the problem recurs, it's
on to 6.5.2 (and if the problem recurs there [and it could].....)

Roger Fink wrote:
Nigel Stapley wrote:
Roger Fink wrote:
I've developed some problems with Quicktime Alternative that I can't
seem to correct (crashes 100% of the time opening mov files), so I'm
going to try the ultimate workaround of deleting it and installing
Quicktime. What is the best version for Win98SE? I would define
"best" as the last version of QT for 98 that really works well.
Since I'd expect that the poster would have it installed, I'd also
appreciate information on security patches, if any, that should be
installed as a follow-up.



I've got 6.5.2 installed (I think this is the last version for 98),
and
it's never crashed on me, so you could be OK.

I've never seen standalone security patches for QT; I always assumed
that whichever ones may have been needed would have been part of the
next version.

Bear in mind that more recent encoding methods for .mov files (I
can't remember what they're called - H.something) won't play in
anything
short
of v7 (which won't run on 98).

OK thanks for that.

The situation with QT-alt, which was OK not that long ago, was much
worse than I thought. I didn't even have to open anything with it;
merely trying to close it crashed Windows. So I tried to uninstall it
through add-remove and also IIRC its own uninstaller and it crashed
Windows. I was making the psychological adjustment one does before a
manual program delete when I decided to try uninstalling it in safe
mode. I even got an error message there, but thankfully it did go
through with the uninstall.

So now, with the machine wiped clean of QT plug-ins and errant
Explorer and registry entries, I'm going to try QT-alt again. If the
problem recurs, it's on to 6.5.2 (and if the problem recurs there
[and it could].....)

6.5.2, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health....
At least it's out of the tray.

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Perhaps your fake address mentions a person involved in law who
is crazy, but if not, then it is spelled judgmental.


"If it doesn't exist, it doesn't matter how it is spelled".

Should "spelled" be spelled "spelt" or should it be spelt "spelled"?

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Nigel Stapley wrote in
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SNIP

www.judgemental.plus.com

Perhaps your fake address mentions a person involved in law who
is crazy, but if not, then it is spelled judgmental.


"If it doesn't exist, it doesn't matter how it is spelled".

Should "spelled" be spelled "spelt" or should it be spelt "spelled"?

- Franc Zabkar

Your comfort level with the appearance of the word
depends upon which side of the pond you were born on.

Spelt is the original spelling AKA British English AKA Queen's English.

Spelled is the American revisionism.

Other examples are colour vs color, centre vs center,
aluminium vs aluminum and, appropriately, titbit vs tidbit.