Tag: quicktime

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Windows QuickTime Vulnerabilities

By now, you may have heard about the security vulnerabilities posed by QuickTime for Windows.  Given the security vulnerabilities, if you’re a Windows user, we highly recommend uninstalling QuickTime. What does this mean for Windows InqScribe users? You will still be able to play and transcribe most media that Windows Media Player supports.  For more…

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Modernizing InqScribe

InqScribe is closing in on ten years old. It’s been a point of pride that InqScribe still runs on older systems — with InqScribe 2.2, as far back as OS X 10.4 and Windows 2000. Now, however, the media playback engine changes we discussed earlier are forcing us to reconsider that approach for future versions of…

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Retiring QuickTime

When Apple released QuickTime in 1991, it was revolutionary. QuickTime provided a straightforward means to open and play a wide variety of audio and video formats. Over the years, Apple enhanced QuickTime, adding support for additional formats, subtitles, Windows support, and even a handful of interactive features. When InqScribe debuted (nearly 10 years ago!), QuickTime was arguably…

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Bugs in QuickTime 7.7.2+ for Windows

UPDATE: As of 7/25/2013 and QuickTime 7.7.4, Apple has still not resolved the issue.  Please continue to use QuickTime 7.7.1.  BL.   A word of warning to InqScribe users: we’ve identified a couple of bugs that impact Windows users’ ability to use InqScribe to generate subtitled movies. We’ve identified two bugs: 1. If you use…

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