Explainer: Whatever happened to QuickTime?.
QuickTime ruled from 1991-2019, and was bigger than Apple itself. But can you name what replaced it, and whether it works as well?
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I am using VLC as the default.
I don’t even know what quicktime is/was other than a fairly crappy (for modern standards anyway, I prefer AV1 currently) encoding format? I’m guessing it was some program based on the article though?
It’s Apple’s built in video app:
QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. Created in 1991, the latest Mac version, QuickTime X, is available for Mac OS X Snow Leopard up to macOS Mojave.
But it can’t play all the formats like VLC can. I’d say most people use VLC for video playback, but QT will let you do things like video/screen/audio record as well 
You can do that with VLC too, it can record, play, transform between formats, cut, splice, and a whole lot more, lol. Quite a number of times I’ve done both records and streamings of my desktop with it before OBS was the big thing to use.
I usually just use ffmpeg straight for the record/alter though.
VLC is ubiquitous 
