Mailing Lists: Apple Mailing Lists
Image of Mac OS face in stamp
 
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Stupid Question about M2V files

At 11:02 AM -0500 1/30/06, Scott Saunders wrote:
Guys. Why does QT handle M2V file the way it does? ie: Why do they take so long to open and occasionally crash the finder.

QuickTime gets to grips with the file and creates a PAR file that makes opening it the next time near instant. I suppose that for you to be able to randomly jump around the movie that QuickTime needs to know where in the file the data is. I'm not sure that it ever crashes the Finder, but it can take so long on a big movie that you think something has crashed.

One thing that seems wrong is that the Finder preview has to go through that whole process, and then if you open the file QuickTime Player has to do it again, and after that if you use the file in DVD Studio Pro it takes a long time yet again. You would have thought that the different programs could use the same PAR file in order to open it quickly.

_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
QuickTime-Users mailing list      (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quicktime-users/email@hidden

This email sent to email@hidden
References: 
 >Stupid Question about M2V files (From: Scott Saunders <email@hidden>)



Visit the Apple Store online or at retail locations.
1-800-MY-APPLE

Contact Apple | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2007 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.