This is a quick little post inspired mostly by the comments to this news item regarding the open source VLC project. I’m sure I’ll want to refine and update it later, but right now I felt the need to jot this down. I won’t get into ripping, transcoding or conversion, this is all about playback. [...]
If you ever use Quicktime clips that use linked dependancy files that are missing you will hang Compressor 3.0.2 when adding these clips to a batch queue. I’ve not tested this with any other version and I’m running 10.5.1 Leopard. Compressor droplets also suffer the same problem and will hang as well. The easiest solution [...]
The State of Video Playback for Mac OSX Users