For me VLC plays everything, including transport streams and stays on top so I can play something and still work. For me that should be an option on every video playback app.

Until recently, for anything other than DVDs, Handbrake was useless for me. I used Quicktime Pro to assemble and trim files before converting them. I also use ffmpegX quite extensively due to the vast number of muxing and stream adaptation options.

Although Apple Compressor makes the best looking MPEG2's IMHO.

They did fix one of my annoyances though. With 7, if you put a video into full screen on a secondary screen, it would pop back out when you clicked on a window on the main screen. The newer player stays full screen, making it easier to dedicate the second monitor to video. Now if only I could get Hulu to work that way.

Now they just need to cut out the video player in iTunes and defer to Quicktime or something. Both have kinda similar UIs, but the iTunes one won't respond to trackpad gestures.

The Full Screen option was likely one of the top driving factors in Pro adoption. That and the export options I suppose. But I'm confident more people were in need of full screen.

It was always possible to switch to full screen using an AppleScript command though, so that was a workaround for those too lazy to search some hack site for a code. I always just used our (then) corporate registration on all my machines.

XScreenSaver (and probably most other third-party) screensavers no longer work, because, for some reason, Apple decided that screensavers should be dynamically loaded into the screensaver application rather than be separate applications, and they decided to make the screensaver application be 64-bit (because of the massive numbers that screensavers deal with?) which means that all the old 32-bit screensavers can no longer be loaded.

Oooh, I'm looking forward to JWZ's no-doubt-forthcoming rant on the subject already! Though screensavers being 64-bit actually makes a lot of sense -- many of them are very compute-intensive, and of course unlike sparc32/sparc64, amd64 code is faster than ia32 even if it doesn't need the bigger registers, as there are also more registers than in the rather miserly ia32 register file.

Peter

You mean this one?. I love that guy, he's just constantly furious about 'everything'.

OK, he's fast.

Peter

Gizmodo is reporting, 3rd hand, that Snow Leopard is reporting diskspace in base 10 values.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419

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