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by CharlesW 212 days ago
> Holding Shift and selecting a chunk of a video to copy was simple because videos were mostly a succession of independently compressed frames.

That was never true. QuickTime 1.0 famously included the Apple Video ("Road Pizza") codec, which had to do temporal compression in order to support video delivery at usable file sizes.

> There are whole projects striving to provide a reliable way to just cut videos without having to recode…

Again, even QuickTime 1.0 did this perfectly.
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kalleboo 212 days ago
It's crazy how even today, VLC still can't scrub in an h264 video and even skipping around takes seconds for it to catch up while QuickTime Player (AVFoundation) can scrub around in realtime.

Early QuickTime was a miracle playing video on 25 MHz Motorola CPUs.

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darkwater 212 days ago
> It's crazy how even today, VLC still can't scrub in an h264 video and even skipping around takes seconds for it to catch up while QuickTime Player (AVFoundation) can scrub around in realtime.

I'm completely ignorant on this topic but couldn't this be related to patents?

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morshu9001 212 days ago
QT is so much faster than anything else. I'll only use VLC if the format is weird or if I want some feature like playlists.
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