I hate it. It's really pissing me off because when I made the horrible horrible mistake of updating it, it sunk its foul, feces encrusted talons into my machine and reset all sorts of defaults against my will, and I don't seem to be able to change them back.

It can't even play some of the movies it stubbornly insists it is the default for, until I save them and then open them. And then, Windows Media Player opens instead and plays them just fine.

Whenever it can't play one of these movies, it also opens a link to apple where it wants me to download at least dozen plugins.

It's also lacking in all sorts of standard features, which apple wants to charge us for.

Go to hell, Quicktime.

I'm going to get some sort of alternative real soon here.

Quicktime isn't so bad..... but RealPlayer.......
...that's a different story.

It takes FOREVER to load up, and it just completely consumes all of the proccessing power in the whole damn computer (kinda like a media player made by Norton).

Alternative "Fast and better software"

QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages
QuickTime_Alternative

Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer/RealOne Player
Real_Alternative

XP Codec Pack is one of the most complete codec pack which helps you to play all major audio and video formats.
XP_Codec_Pack

I actually don't mind RP. I hate QT though. It seems that no matter how often I update, it's never enough. I'm on a shitty connection, so I hate endless dl's!! Grr!

I use DivX. seems to load everything really fast. and I dont like Quicktime either... it starts to stutter beause it download while playing and it downloads really slow.

***kinda like a media player made by Norton*** TRIPLE LOL LOL LOL

I don't mind RealPlayer so much either.

It's such a horrible worthless POS media player that very little on the internet actually requires it. Generally, it seems only availible as an option rather than as a requirement.

Quicktime also ask me for those annoying files that it wants to transfer under its control. Its like it conflicts with WMP.