Salmon of Doubt

I'm using a Windows machine, but I've got a few songs and videos I've downloaded off the net in a Quicktime format. Is there any way of arranging a playlist of these things? I can't see any options in Quicktime for making playlists, and the things wont play in any other application besides Quicktime player. I saw a download for a playlist organiser on the apple site, but it said it would only work with a Mac OS. Can anyone help, or am I doomed to failure unless I go and buy a Mac?

NonHomogenized

I'm at work at the moment, so I don't have access to my usual computer resources (in fact, I don't even have quicktime installed, so I can't take a look), but my first suggestion would be to find the movies in a non-quicktime format. IMESHO, quicktime sucks. I try to work only with avi's whenever possible (and I prefer DivX or Xvid), and I suspect that, short of uncompressed video (), I've never seen worse compression for a given resolution than I see from quicktime.

If I find anything at home, I'll edit this post to include it.
Best o' luck.

Koyaanisqatsi

Although Realplayer is a pain in the ass, the latest version (RealplayerOne) will play ANY file and I think it has playlist organizing abilities.

As for being able to save QT files as something else, the cheapest way to do that (to my knowledge) is to shell out the $30 for QT Pro (though I'm not sure if they have a windows compatible version).

Short of that, you can shell out whatever the going rate is these days for a professional sound edit program (like Sound Edit 16; I have Version 2 and it will open just about any sound file and let me save it as something else).

If you really want total multi-media control over anything you create or download, then you'll have to shell out about $800 (if memmory serves) for Discreet Cleaner. Let's you re-render a QT video file, for example, into raw DV, Winmedia, Realplayer, etc. and has all kinds of fun, techno geek things you can do to any kind of video/audio.

Huginn

They do.

It's a very useful tool to have if you are at all interested in internet video.

Salmon of Doubt

Thanks for the help! Unfortunately they aren't available in any other format, or I would already have downloaded the alternatives! I'll have a look at Realplayer, but I'm a bit short of cash right now (chronically short in fact!), so although I would love to get it, I don't think I'll be buying Discreet Cleaner any time soon! Thanks for the info though.

Salmon of Doubt

I looked at Realplayer, and it does indeed play Quicktime videos! Unfortunately, it WON'T play .wmv files, which is very annoying, because the point of the exercise was to create a playlist that would combine the two! :banghead: Apart from trying to find the videos in a quicktime format, does anyone else have any suggestions of how to play the two types of music videos together on one playlist (without me having to spend any/much money)?