Now, the VLC folks are readying a companion to their player called VLMC. QuickTime X does that, too, but not as efficiently, not with as many export formats, and not on Linux. One thing QuickTime Pro used to do is quick-and-dirty video editing, for those times when you don’t want to fire up your whole editor. (See discussion from frustrated users on the Apple forums.) The need for an open alternative has become plainer with the release of QuickTime X, which looks slicker but strips out some essential features of the previous QuickTime Pro. In short, it’s all of the things QuickTime Player once promised to be. It runs everywhere (Mac, Windows, Linux). It’s (as of 1.0) a basic video conversion tool. That’s a lesson many users of VLC, the stripped-down but high-performance multi-platform video player, have already learned. Video software, worse, has typically been labeled unusable, because of the primitive state of some early projects.īut make no mistake: the real appeal of open source video software is to take a bite out of the hassle and often-sluggish performance of bigger, aging commercial apps and frameworks.

Some open source software, fairly or unfairly, has acquired a reputation for being “poor man’s” clones of commercial projects, outside the popular acceptance of Linux servers and Firefox browsers. Screenshot of an early build by goatmilk on reddit.

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