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Gawd
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I will be heading off to University this September, and in doing so I thought I'd get a fresh start, and buy an Apple notebook instead of sticking with Windows, which I've grown very tired and irritated with. The only reason for me to stick with Windows would be if I planned on doing a lot of PC gaming, and I doubt I'll have time for too much of that anymore, so that's no longer really an issue/factor for me to consider. I'm definitely looking forward to getting my new Mac, but having used Windows all my life (I know how to use a Mac easy enough, however all my home experience and media experience is pretty much Windows dependent) I'm trying to figure out the best route when it comes to watching videos on my computer (something I do frequently). I'm a fan of downloading and having everything archived, instead of just streaming it from the internet (this comes from having dial-up all my life, and needing to have hard copies of videos saved to watch, etc.) What I want to do is use QuickTime for pretty well ALL my video watching. I was wondering if there are any good sites with codecs for QuickTime (preferably plugins/codecs available for both Mac and Windows that will do the same thing.
I know there's MPlayer and whatnot, but meh, I'd really prefer to just use QuickTime for everything on my Mac and PC if possible. However, if QuickTime isn't capable of such feats, my next choice would be the DivX player (once again, if there were codecs available for it, and a version available for Mac, etc.) I'm going to be investing in a big external hard drive to store all my media on (not a fan of having an abundance stored locally on my machine). I'd love to be able to go into that drive whether I'm on my Mac notebook, or back home on my PC and still be able to double-click any video and have it open in QuickTime (or DivX). I do not want to install Flash player for Flash, Windows Media Player for WMV, Google Video Player gor their format, etc. etc. just for examples.
It's either that or finding a REALLY good video encoding/transcoding app for Apple (and one for Windows) that can take virtually ANY video format and put it into H.264 (preferably, so I know it will work on both Mac and PC and with QuickTime, not to mention the good quality.
I realize I'm asking for quite a bit, and have been trying to Google around myself, but haven't really been able to find something that fits my criteria. It would be awesome if a site existed with a list of Codecs to download and install for QuickTime or DivX. I may just be dreaming though
I know there's MPlayer and whatnot, but meh, I'd really prefer to just use QuickTime for everything on my Mac and PC if possible. However, if QuickTime isn't capable of such feats, my next choice would be the DivX player (once again, if there were codecs available for it, and a version available for Mac, etc.) I'm going to be investing in a big external hard drive to store all my media on (not a fan of having an abundance stored locally on my machine). I'd love to be able to go into that drive whether I'm on my Mac notebook, or back home on my PC and still be able to double-click any video and have it open in QuickTime (or DivX). I do not want to install Flash player for Flash, Windows Media Player for WMV, Google Video Player gor their format, etc. etc. just for examples.
It's either that or finding a REALLY good video encoding/transcoding app for Apple (and one for Windows) that can take virtually ANY video format and put it into H.264 (preferably, so I know it will work on both Mac and PC and with QuickTime, not to mention the good quality.
I realize I'm asking for quite a bit, and have been trying to Google around myself, but haven't really been able to find something that fits my criteria. It would be awesome if a site existed with a list of Codecs to download and install for QuickTime or DivX. I may just be dreaming though