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Uninstall QuickTime for Windows: Apple drops support, won't patch security issues

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petran79

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I still remember the amazing compression ratio of Sorenson/Qdesign codec videos in the late 90s. They even sold expensive accelerator cards.

What times....
 
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indask8

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I don't think I have it installed on any of my windows computers right now.

I remember the good old time when QuickTime and RealPlayer were a must have to watch internet videos, my poor Win98 computer was struggling with both software running on only 32MB of ram.
 
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Rootbeer

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I had quicktime installed for only one reason in the past: if you open your apple video purchases (in my case, only tv shows) in iTunes, you can't take screenshots or gifs cause the DRM feature just blacks it all out. However, if you download them through itunes, then open them using quicktime... you can get around this. At least on the videos I owned and tried. I found that useful.

Anyway, I haven't had quicktime installed since I clean installed Windows 10 last summer.
 
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Kindekuma

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Ah damn it! I use Quicktime a lot when viewing playblasts in Maya or going frame by frame in reference video while animating.
 
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Somnid

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Where are they getting that Apple discontinued support? I see no official source and a lot to circular links to this article.
 
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XiaNaphryz

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Somnid said:
Where are they getting that Apple discontinued support? I see no official source and a lot to circular links to this article.
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Apparently Apple only informed Trend Micro about it. The Register reached out to Apple but they haven't received any word back.

It should be noted that Apple has quietly discontinued support for products in the past, like Safari for Windows.
 
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ChoklitReign

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Does it apply to QTLite? I used to use that for the occasional m4a stream but I can't remember ever needing it in the past year. I'll be fine without it I guess.
 
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Cipherr

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Ahaha, you joking me? That thing has been trash for as long as I can remember. I checked just to be sure, but yeah, I'm way ahead of them. I dont have it installed.
 
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Puppen

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jmdajr said:
Does h.264 video even in Adone Premiere Pro work without the QuickTime libraries? It's not something I have ever needed to test,
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Looks like it does, but I know for certain that some .MOV files won't load without QuickTime codec, like converted RAW video I shoot on my 5dmk3.
 
bengraven

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Between this and no iTunes support for Vista anymore (thanks Apple, just bought an iphone that I can't add my 15 year old music collection to) I'm like whatever at this point.
 
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TheSeks

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Onaco said:
Didn't iTunes require QuickTime?
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No, not anymore. It used to like a decade ago, but Apple has been phasing out QuickTime on Windows for a while. Same with anything that isn't iTunes for them, really. Safari was phased out a year or two ago.

bengraven said:
Between this and no iTunes support for Vista anymore (thanks Apple, just bought an iphone that I can't add my 15 year old music collection to) I'm like whatever at this point.
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Move those files to a harddrive. Put those files into Windows 8/10 installed iTunes library. It should see them. Then transfer.
 
bengraven

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TheSeks said:
Move those files to a harddrive. Put those files into Windows 8/10 installed iTunes library. It should see them. Then transfer.
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Wife just got a laptop so I'm probably going to do that.

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Vyer said:
.....Vista?
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Never upgraded because I had so much shit on my PC like mods and such that would be a pain in the ass to put on a hard drive to move.

Then it just became too much trouble. The PC is too old to spend time and money on.
 
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XiaNaphryz

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MooseKnuckles said:
Is there a way for Apple to make the codecs available without the player/associated vulnerabilities?
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I'm guessing Adobe will either work out a deal with Apple so they can distribute the codecs themselves with the application installation or just figure something else out entirely and send out a patch update that uses alternative codecs. The latter though could be really difficult since it could break exports between people on different versions.
 
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M3d10n

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So, where exactly is the vulnerability? The player? The codecs? The browser plugin (which isn't installed by default)?

What is the entry point? Browser? Malicious video/audio file?

Those are important details that are sorely missing.
 
s_mirage

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M3d10n said:
So, where exactly is the vulnerability? The player? The codecs? The browser plugin (which isn't installed by default)?

What is the entry point? Browser? Malicious video/audio file?

Those are important details that are sorely missing.
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This. Not terribly important, but I need it for a few old games. I'll remove it for now but I need more info to decide what to do in the long term.
 
Coreda

Coreda

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cameron said:
Pooh. I use QT in windows to step through frames (both forward and back). VLC and MPC-HC don't seem to have the ability on default installs.
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Just use PotPlayer. Frame stepping is mapped to D/F by default, but can rebound to anything. Best video player around imo.

As for Premiere encoding aren't there x264 plugins available to use instead?
 
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XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
M3d10n said:
So, where exactly is the vulnerability? The player? The codecs? The browser plugin (which isn't installed by default)?

What is the entry point? Browser? Malicious video/audio file?

Those are important details that are sorely missing.
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s_mirage said:
This. Not terribly important, but I need it for a few old games. I'll remove it for now but I need more info to decide what to do in the long term.
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There are links to specifics on the vunerabilities in the OP.

The issues relate to heap corruption and require either visiting a malicious page or the opening of a malicious file.
 
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szaromir

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I always thought QuickTime (and iTunes for Windows) was some kind of malware meant to discourage people from interacting with Apple products.
 
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AlphaDump

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so QuickTime finally reveals itself as a trojan horse for malware..


This is a rather bad look for apple considering how tied Quicktime is to their past applications
 
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Unknown Soldier

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Does Apple not know or care that Adobe's Creative Suite/Cloud on Windows relies on Quicktime for some functions?

What's Adobe going to do about it, I wonder. (Probably nothing, knowing Adobe.)
 
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FyreWulff

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bengraven said:
Between this and no iTunes support for Vista anymore (thanks Apple, just bought an iphone that I can't add my 15 year old music collection to) I'm like whatever at this point.
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This is like having a bomb to defuse but your bomb suit is also made out of a bomb
 
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