July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
866 pages
29h 18m
English
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QuickTime
The settings in the QuickTime panel affect the way movies are played back on your Mac, including movies that stream to you from a Web page and movies that you watch using QuickTime Player (Chapter 15).
You don't have to touch most of these options, but here are a few worth tweaking:
Register. Fill in the blanks to upgrade to QuickTime Pro; see Chapter 15.
Browser. These settings control how your Web browser's QuickTime plug-in works with streaming video. "Play movies automatically," for example, tells the plug-in to start playing movies as soon as they begin downloading, rather than wait for the entire movie to download first. (If you have a dial-up Internet connection, you'll probably want this turned off to keep the incoming movie from stuttering.)
Update. These controls provide an easy way to download the latest QuickTime software version.
Streaming. Some streaming QuickTime Web sites are set up with multiple versions of the same movie, each saved at a different size and frame rate. Based on your connection speed setting here, the QuickTime plug-in can automatically request the appropriately sized version of a movie for the best possible playback. Usually, Automatic—a new Tiger feature—detects the speed, saving you the trouble of muddling with the pop-up menu.
The Enable Instant-On feature means that you can begin watching a streaming QuickTime movie before it's been fully downloaded.
However, this feature works because QuickTime analyzes how fast the movie data is arriving ...
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