Xinema: Full Screen Without Paying Full Price

The good folks who brought us Caffeine have developed yet another ingenious application called Xinema. As many of you may know, Quicktime does not come with Full screen support unless you purchase Quicktime Pro. This app supposedly solves that problem by creating a workaround. I have Quicktime pro so thus I have no need for this but if someone could try it out and leave their impressions in the comments, your help would be much appreciated.

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Submitted on January 6, 2008 at 1:29 pm - Xinema: Full Screen Without Paying Full Price was written by Michael Zhao - There have been 8 comments - Categorized in Cool OS X Apps, Easy Tips, Quicktime Tips

8 Responses to “Xinema: Full Screen Without Paying Full Price”

Tim Horton

I'm reasonably certain that the latest release of Quicktime Player (non-Pro) unlocked full-screen for everyone.

See http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/12/018243 January 6th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Shawn

Actually, as of QT 7, it does play full-screen without having to purchase QT Pro. I use it repeatedly to watch Divx and Xvid videos. January 6th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
san

QT do the full screen now.
Sorry this app is useless. January 6th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
encro

Well QuickTime couldn't go into Fullscreen without purchasing a licence until recently. This was changed though and is available in the latest version 7.3.1 on OS X 10.5.

I think it was QT 7.2 that introduced it back into the normal player again. January 6th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
MacTipper

I also have QT Pro, however, I'm pretty sure that the most recent version of QT FRee has Full Screen.

Although, if it doesn't, you can use applescript. (Read about that http://www.mactipper.com/2007/08/free-quicktime-fullscreen.html" rel="nofollow">here

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Brad Jasper

I think it's safe to say the latest version of QuickTime allows for full-screen mode.

Good to know, I always thought it was cheap that it didn't. January 6th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
LSDJ

for older versions:
open->script editor
type
tell application "QuickTime Player"
present front document scale screen
end tell

save
runscript
tada!!! January 13th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Discerptor

This brings back memories of when I used Apple's Quicktime script library to make Quicktime "Present Front Movie" without checking for Quicktime Pro, which was the same as doing Fullscreen. I always found it amusing because Apple themselves provided the script I was using on their website as a free download. April 8th, 2008 at 3:23 pm