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Apple Releases QuickTime 7.6.7 for Windows

Thursday August 12, 2010 7:12 pm PDT by Eric Slivka

Apple today released QuickTime 7.6.7 for Windows, bringing a fix for a single security issue that could be exploited by a maliciously crafted movie file.

A stack buffer overflow exists in QuickTime's error logging. Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This issue is addressed by disabling debug logging. This issue does not affect Mac OS X systems.

The update weighs in at 32.28 MB and requires Windows 7, Vista, or XP (SP2 or later).
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ArmCortexA8
20 months ago
Apple's own Software Update and QuickTime's own Update function fail to detect this new version. Therefore you have to manually download it from www.apple.com/quicktime.
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Sixtafoua
20 months ago
Wait... They don't have QuickTime 10 yet!?!?!?:eek:
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hexagonheat
20 months ago
Ugh Quicktime is terrible and needs to die. I dislike it almost as much as I disliked realplayer back in the late 90's.
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ppc_michael
20 months ago

Ugh Quicktime is terrible and needs to die. I dislike it almost as much as I disliked realplayer back in the late 90's.


Really? Quicktime is pretty amazing for professional filmmaking. The Quicktime X player sucks though.
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Hrududu
20 months ago

Wait... They don't have QuickTime 10 yet!?!?!?:eek:

Lucky them. QuickTime X is a joke compared to QuickTime Pro of days past.
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fleshman03
20 months ago

Really? Quicktime is pretty amazing for professional filmmaking. The Quicktime X player sucks though.


Meh, just move on to iMovie/FCP and call it a day.
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DARKJ3DI
20 months ago
I dont understand this hate for QuickTime X. Its designed for video 'playback'. Just like VLC or any other media player.

QUickTime 7 has never been good for me. I tried to export a widescreen video to MPEG4 and it came out as horizontally compressed 4:3.
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locust76
20 months ago

Wait... They don't have QuickTime 10 yet!?!?!?:eek:


The only reason Windows users even have Quicktime in the first place is because you can't install iTunes without that crap.

In fact, it's so crappy, I don't think it even tries to take over file associations when it's installed. Apple knows they'll just be reset anyways, so Quicktime just sits there like a vestigial limb. It's an entirely wasted 32 megabytes, whereas VLC can play a million times more formats than Quicktime and is half the size.

Oh, but Quicktime looks like brushed aluminum. Great. And it can't do fullscreen unless you pay for it. Fantastic.
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spillproof
20 months ago
Quicktime sucked on my PC a year ago. Clunky and ugly UI.

Quicktime X is nice, but needs more basic features to be useful to me. I do love the trimming action, quick and easy.
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godrifle
20 months ago
...does it fix yet another bug in Mac OS X Server's Wiki/Blog service that causes audio but not video to play back for Windows visitors?

Jeez Apple, get your QT **** together. For a company focused on media consumption, your media consumption software is really ******.
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