I too had problems with QuickTime before (QT 4), however, it didn't crash
anything, it just "took over" every video file no matter online or off line
(even those it couldn't handle), I tried fixing, but for some strange
reasons, online (video clip from website eg. www.wwf.com online news) video
refused to give out the controll from QT, and QT itself, was super slowwww
comparing with M$ media player. I was a Netscape user (also I was running
win98) back to that time, so it might be just problem between QT and
netscape.

Since then, I took QT off forever, no QT, and no problem. (and I use IE 5.5
since AOL took over Netscape, no more unstable win98, win2k only)

I don't know how is QT 5 now, but I do not recommend QuickTime for any
thing.

QuickTime video format is possible to view by other media player grogram,
right now I use IrfanView with QuickTime plug-in, it works most of time,
only few video clips (from Harley-Davidson website) I couldn't open with
IrfanView.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "don penlington" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:47 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] decompressing file


> Kansara writes:
>
> This is an Apple Quicktime file and you will have to download Quicktime5
> from Apple website.
>
> But be warned, QT5 can be very troublesome and is likely to crash your
> computer.  It is unsuitable and will not run on older computers.  It can
be
> very difficult to set up properly.
>
> Leave it alone unless you really must have it.  On mine, it will crash
both
> my browsers every time, although it runs offline (but even that was very
> difficult to achieve).  I understand that Microsoft MediaPlayer also
> conflicts with it.
>
> It may be OK if you have a new computer running the latest Windows
> versions, but even then I'd avoid it if possible.

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