Brings back the "good old days" the often heard cry from the
electronic woods (in this forum): "that Quicktime is only a
container - and that the codecs that sucked badly (the blockies and
mosquitoes ad nauseam) - in the past - were not Apple's fault".
It only reminds you of that because you didn't understand the
distinction then, and still don't apparently. There was no apologism,
just an attempt to get you to understand some basic distinctions.
No one here is apologizing for H.264 in this thread, so I don't see
how it's even a relevant comparison, but that's to be expected.
Now-a-days, Quicktime's focus is definitely on the variations of
the H.264/AVC codec (at least from Apple own business perspective -
iTune/Video Ipod sales of movies etc.) .
Ok...
H.264 AVC was/is supposed to be a standard.
It is... but the term "standard" has many meanings and since you
refuse to acknowledge this and use more specific language, let's just
say it is.
The notion was(is?) that a H.264/AVC movie encoded with Apple's own
H.264 encoder would play well on all H.264 AVC decoders - it's
called a standard, like NTSC is a standard. The $64,000 question
is: "is anyone in the H.264/AVC encoder/decoder industry actually
compliant?
Yes... but since you insist on comparing apples and oranges, let's
just leave it at that, for fear of being accused of being an apologist.
According to some people CORE is the "best" H.264/AVC Decoder
around. If that's true - does Apple Quicktime's H.264 play in the
CORE H.264 Decoder. That's a pretty understandable question about
Quicktime's own H.264 codec - at least, to anyone in business.
Considering your continued interest, I would hope it'd be worth the
$9.95 to discover the answer. To end what promises to be an
interminable thread I ponied up for you. The answer is yes, it works
with content encoded with Apple's H.264 encoder.
