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More happy things
1. Via Daring Fireball: Microsoft distributes Flip4Mac's QuickTime Windows Media component for free, so now you can play (non-DRMed) Windows Media files on your Mac in anything that uses QuickTime, instead of using Microsoft's player. It really works. Very nice.
Not so happy: After playing with it a while, I see that the component seems to have a marked tendency to make the application crash when the clip ends. I don't know what's up with that.
2. After a long, long wait in which huge numbers of Americans watched it over BitTorrent, the first season of the new Doctor Who is coming to the US on the Sci-Fi Channel in March. I hope they don't mangle it too badly. While the new series has had its ups and downs, it's well worth watching, and the two-parter "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances" is one of my favorite pieces of TV science fiction ever; don't miss it.
Not so happy: After playing with it a while, I see that the component seems to have a marked tendency to make the application crash when the clip ends. I don't know what's up with that.
2. After a long, long wait in which huge numbers of Americans watched it over BitTorrent, the first season of the new Doctor Who is coming to the US on the Sci-Fi Channel in March. I hope they don't mangle it too badly. While the new series has had its ups and downs, it's well worth watching, and the two-parter "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances" is one of my favorite pieces of TV science fiction ever; don't miss it.
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It's a nice plugin to have, but the developers seem a little bit optimistic.
Also, no matter how much I prefer OS X to Windows, OS X is really lacking in the video playback architecture department. QuickTime is nowhere near Windows' DirectShow in terms of actually working. It's just plain silly that a plugin that decodes the WMV video streams in files needs to actually handle the container format, too. DirectShow (and most open-source all-in-one video players) properly splits up the work of components into demuxers, decoders, renderers and so on, and builds graphs to combine them to play files. QuickTime is feeling horribly outdated in this respect.