PSA: If you have Quicktime on your Windows PC. uninstal it

[OutHouse]

The iGiant is also quietly advising users to uninstall the media player from their Windows machines to avoid being hacked

The flaws were reported to Apple on November 11, 2015, and acknowledged the same day by Cupertino. The following March, Apple told Trend Micro that "the product would be deprecated on Windows and the vendor would publish removal instructions for users."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/14/uninstall_quicktime_for_windows/

 

[Hugh Jass]

People still have Quicktime installed?

 

[IronWing]

Is it no longer required for iTunes?

 

[poofyhairguy]

I thought this was going to be a necro thread.

 

[IronWing]

I thought this was going to be a necro thread.

I'm not old, I just smell that way.

 

[tenpole]

I have Quicktime for some video files that would not play on WMP.

 

[Anubis]

I already did that

in the year 2000

 

[effowe]

I have Quicktime for some video files that would not play on WMP.

Get VLC, will play pretty much anything you throw at it without the need for codecs.

I only had Quicktime installed as it installed with iTunes, which I haven't used on my Windows machine in a couple of years, at least.

 

[smackababy]

Is it no longer required for iTunes?

Hasn't been required in awhile, though, every iTunes install / upgrade asks to install it.

 

[TheGardener]

Haven't used Quicktime in almost a decade. VLC is my go to for all video. No Adobe Flash or MS Silverlight on my PC. If it doesn't play, no worries. I don't watch it.

 

[tenpole]

VLC the traffic cone one. I already have that. I cannot remember what the video format was but it was from an old camera 2002. I f vlc plays it all will ditch Quickftime.

 

[Rakehellion]

So what will I use for native video encoding?