Quick time, slow time

[unixronin]

So, you start up your browser, and QuickTime says it has a crucial upgrade.  It tells you that QuickTime 7.1 contains a new H.264 codec (there's the carrot) and an important security fix (there's the stick).

"But wait," you think.  "QuickTime and iTunes are bundled together now.  I can't upgrade QuickTime without being forced to install iTunes, and I don't *&$*#^#$# WANT to install &#*$#%% iTunes."

Well, hey, guess what!  Steve Jobs listened!  Now you can get a standalone QuickTime installer again that doesn't bundle iTunes.  It's theoretically existed before, but you couldn't get to it because of link loops on the site, and then in 7.0 it apparently went away altogether.  In 7.1, it's back, and accessible.

Find it here, for either Mac OSX 10.3.9 or later, or Windows 2000/XP.

Comments

[anda.livejournal.com]

How odd. I mostly wish I could have iTunes without Quicktime. bleah.

[databeast.livejournal.com]

it's always been there, they just made the 7.0 standalone download DAMN hard to find, tucked away somewhere, that I never remembered to bookmark every time I found it...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I managed to theoretically find it once, but it was a circular link that led back about 4 steps along the path I'd followed to get there.