0Aggiornamento di QT Lite & Alternativa QuickTime

I’ve long been a user of Quick­Time Altern­at­ive, as a much light­er altern­at­ive to the full Apple Quick­Time. Sadly QT Altern­at­ive (and its cous­in QT Lite) has­n’t been updated in over a year, whilst Quick­Time has received sev­er­al secur­ity and bug fixes. Updat­ing QT Lite is a straight­for­ward pro­cess which I will detail below. I have also built an updated installer which is avail­able on the [int­link id=“741” type=“page”]pagina di download[/intlink].  This installer is based on Apple Quick­Time 7.7.3 (28-Dicembre 2012)

Primo, a quick note — QT Lite and Quick­Time altern­at­ive are the same thing — the only dif­fer­ence being that Quick­Time Altern­at­ive includes Media Play­er Clas­sic. Both ver­sions are based on Quick­Time 7.6.9. I would sug­gest avoid­ing Quick­Time Altern­at­ive, e invece, installing an up-to-date ver­sion of Media Play­er Clas­sic — Home Cinema, which you can find linked from the down­loads page.

The files installed by QT Lite are dir­ectly from the Quick­Time installer. They can be extrac­ted, and copied over the top of the files installed by QT Lite to update to the latest ver­sion. Below I will list the pro­ced­ure for extrac­tion and the files required for any­one that wishes to com­plete the update manu­ally (piuttosto che utilizzare il nuovo programma di installazione).  Please also note that I haven’t found a way to extract the browser plu­gins without actu­ally installing Quick­Time — but I don’t recom­mend installing the browser plu­gin any­way. If you do want to install the browser plu­gin then see the sec­tion at the bot­tom of this article.

The easy way — my updated installer

Down­load from the down­loads page

The manual way — 1. estraendo i file da Quick Time

1. Down­load the Quick­Time installer from Mela
2. Down­load the QT Lite installer from File­Hippo
3. Extract the Quick­Time installer files from the down­loaded file with Win­RAR, or by run­ning QuicktimeInstaller.exe /extract
4. Usa lessM­SI per estrarre quicktime.msi in una nuova cartella
5. Browse to the new folder — you should see 1 msi e 2 cartelle
6. Vai a c:\file di programma quicktime (c:\file di programma (x86)\quicktime su sistemi x64)
7. The “QTSys­tem” folder con­tains all the files you need — copy it to some­where (ad es. your doc­u­ments folder)

The manual way — 2. Plugin del browser [passaggio facoltativo]

• Unin­stall any pre­vi­ous ver­sions of quick­time or quick­time lite
• Run the stand­ard quick­time installer and install quicktime
• Vai a c:\file di programma quicktime (c:\file di programma (x86)\quicktime su sistemi x64)
• The “plu­gins” folder con­tains all the files you need — copy it to some­where (ad es. your doc­u­ments folder)
• Unin­stall quick­time, applic­a­tion sup­port, and apple soft­ware update from the con­trol panel

The manual way — 3. Installazione e aggiornamento di QTLite

• Install QTL­ite
• Copy the QTSys­tem folder you cop­ies earli­er into c:\file di programma QT Lite
• When you’re asked about mer­ging and over-writ­ing, dì di si

The manual way — 4. Aggiornamento dei plugin del browser [passaggio facoltativo]

• If you do want browser plu­gins, and you copied them from quick­time earli­er then read on
• Copy the “Plu­gins” folder you copied earlier
• For Fire­fox copy it to c:\program files\mozilla fire­fox and say yes to any mer­ging/over-writ­ing
• Per Chrome copialo in c:\program files\google\chrome and say yes to any mer­ging/over-writ­ing
• There are prob­ably sim­il­ar steps for oth­er browsers, ma non li ho ancora controllati.

Come ho fatto il programma di installazione

1. Estrarre i file come descritto nei passaggi 1 and 3 above
2. Extract the QTL­ite installer with “Uni­ver­sal Extract­or” (a ver­sion of UE with up-to-date pre­requis­ites can be obtained from ajuaOn­line)
3. Installa anche InnoSetup (the uni­code ver­sion) — we’ll need it
4. Sovrascrivi i file nel file {app}\Cartella QTSystem con quelle salvate in precedenza
5. Sovrascrivi i file nel file {app}\Plugins folder with the ones saved earli­er (some renam­ing and duplic­at­ing is required, questo dovrebbe essere ovvio)
6. Copy the files from plu­gins to vari­ous oth­er loc­a­tions (molti di loro)
7. Remove the “check” part of lines 631 and 632