04.04.07
Video Weirdness
I saw something incredibly strange on the online NewsHour tonight, at the 6:26 mark:
Why is PBS using a TiVo to record their own show? I just can’t fathom any way in which this makes sense. At least they gave it two thumbs up.
On a somewhat related note, I watch the NewsHour in QuickTime Player, since VLC’s streaming support isn’t quite there yet. QT Player is a terrible program. In order to go full-screen, you have to fork over $25 to Apple to upgrade to the “Pro version”. This has always struck me as idiotic, so I found this workaround hilarious. Apple forgot to seal this feature off from AppleScript, so if you run this…
tell application “QuickTime Player”
present front movie
end tell
present front movie
end tell
… you’ll go fullscreen without upgrading!
Evan said,
April 5, 2007 at 8:25 am
I’ve happily used MPlayer OS X. QuickTime is total crap.
danvk said,
April 6, 2007 at 11:51 pm
No can do. MPlayer chokes on the stream. Doesn’t give me an error message or anything, it just ignores it.