When I used the downloading provided, it insisted on just playing it, which meant I saw a lot of stills and nothing much else. Is there a better way? The trailers came down just fine but not the real deal.
Help.
No you should not need to buy QuickTime to save/downlaod a copy of Sintel (awsome video btw).
How do you mean witht the thingy that you saw a bunch of stills? Is it like the movie is lagging a litle??
If so try to download a version that has a lower resulution than the one you just downloaded.
Other than that I don’t know what to do.
You’ll have to make a search on Apple’s website for the QuickTime Pro (it’s QuickTime 7). It should be free, by now (at least when downloading when booted in OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard).
If you still have problems, go to Perian’s website to download the free movie swissnife (this allows to play plenty of extra codecs within QuickTime - It’s Mac only, though. Don’t think it works with windows’ QT).
Yes, its lagging because of download speed. It plays automatically as it loads,an with the free quicktime I can neither stop it nor control it in any way as it does and when it’s finished loading/playing that’s all she wrote, seems like I need to load it again to play it again.
I’m loading the medium version mp4 from http://www.sintel.org/wp-content/content/download.html, and I’m assuming that if I can download it then play it later, that it should play much more smoothly. And I want to play it for a blender class I am giving next weekend.
try rightclicking on the link and choosing “save target” or whatever you browser calls it… left clicking just plays it in the browser which I assume is what you’re complaining about?
how about right-click & download, or uninstall quickbloat,
it has a tendency to over take other web players & the default file download call…
edit: too late.
Once you’re downloaded it, I suggest VLC for a nice, smooth playback
Quicktime Pro is not for free!
ha ha, lets forget the whole thing and do what we have to…
BTW I don’t like vlc UI but its OK. I’m using it from 2002 on a mac.
Use Real Player SP it is free and you can capture videos from the web and even convert them for use on mobile devices. http://www.real.com/
re: Real Player. It’s still around? imho, UGH. It installs all kinds of insidious bloat, puts up ads and calls home all the time, and sucks as a player. I had to reinstall the os to get rid of it completely.
Jeez…lots of crap in news and chat as of late.
VLC media player is the best player to get. Period. I thought this would be common knowledge in an open source community. Quicktime is sheer unadulterated garbage on any windows platform…that’s just the way it is.
VLC is the one and only serious media player
which is light weight and can play everything
from a movie to a dvd.
I just wish it could also convert media files which
as I read it should be able to but I was not able
to get that to work.
However Optikz you might know or use Quicktime,
it is more then just a player.
To the OP: as has been stated, right click and save as.
Re VLC: On windows, it does indeed play the mp4s MUCH more smoothly than quicktime. Unfortunately it borks the downmixing from 5.1, so if you’re watching in VLC and don’t have a 5.1 sound setup, get the stereo version. (Same goes for Linux, unfortunately.)
The KMPlayer is far better than VLC, and reads everything, even QT, windows only …
And is also free for personal use.
:yes:
Edit :
Can’t you just download the torrent?
Yeah I was a little leery in using it again, but I gave it a shot. You can force it to work off line so it’s not connected to the web and still be able to use the capture plugin in your browser. It will play tons of formats and is free. But I guess like anything else, its use it based on personal preference.
Looks like we have a winner. I just tried that here at the library and seems to be downloading like I’d hope. Thanks. :eyebrowlift:
I use Windows Media player and it does the job flawlessly.