I produced a QTVR movie about five years ago and it worked fine on any browser at the time as long as the computer had QuickTime installed. Now the VR effect is jumpy in Firefox and Chrome on the Mac and my standard Explorer and Firefox on my PC don't have Quicktime. Has Apple stoppe supporting it? Is there equivalent technology?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Also G5 with OS 10.5.8
Windows users must download and install QuickTime because it is not pre-installed on those OS's.
As I remember Quick Time was commonly installed on those machines a few years ago. And certainly the playback wasn't as jerky as it is now on everything but Safari for Mac. From the amount of activitiy in this forum and on the Apple website generally it looks like they've dropped support for QVTR.
Playback support has dropped for many legacy codecs and formats in 10.9 Mavericks. QTVR is one of them.
Windows users must install QuickTime and they'll get a prompt from a Web page that includes QuickTime content.
But is QVTR still current? If I bought software to produced QVTR movies would they play back better?
A faster computer and higher download speeds are the only way to improve playback of anything off the Web.
QTVR was cool when released 20 years ago. It still has a function in Web page design when someone wants to show a large area in a small space.
But as bandwidth speeds have increased and the costs of Web hosting have dropped many QTVR's are being replaced with short videos.
Apple hasn't done anything with QTVR development in over 12 years. Maybe even longer.
QuickTime version 10.3 found in Mavericks can't even play QTVR files.
Whatever happened to Quicktime VR
