Movist has become my video player of choice, despite some minor annoyances.
It will play a variety of formats that QuickTime can't or won't play without
additional libraries or plugins. Movist plays Windows Media files without the
annoying and often lengthy Flip4Mac import process.
Movist also supports playlists and it scrubs through the timeline faster and
more reliably than QuickTime Player. Two buttons allow fast-forwarding and
rewinding in 10 second intervals and hovering over the timeline with the cursor
reveals timecode via tooltips. That's pretty cool.
The bad: Only one player window at a time. The app therefore quits when the
window is closed like a utility and not like an app. Playlists can't be saved.
Doesn't record.
Now that Snow Leopard's QuickTime Player doesn't edit, there really is no
reason to stick with it if there are better alternative. Movist is a better
movie player.
Review by homo_superior (about 1 month ago)
Movist has become my video player of choice, despite some minor annoyances. It will play a variety of formats that QuickTime can't or won't play without additional libraries or plugins. Movist plays Windows Media files without the annoying and often lengthy Flip4Mac import process.
Movist also supports playlists and it scrubs through the timeline faster and more reliably than QuickTime Player. Two buttons allow fast-forwarding and rewinding in 10 second intervals and hovering over the timeline with the cursor reveals timecode via tooltips. That's pretty cool.
The bad: Only one player window at a time. The app therefore quits when the window is closed like a utility and not like an app. Playlists can't be saved. Doesn't record.
Now that Snow Leopard's QuickTime Player doesn't edit, there really is no reason to stick with it if there are better alternative. Movist is a better movie player.