How does QuickTime work?

Installing QuickTime. QuickTime is a free technology from Apple that runs on both Macintosh and Windows computers. You first must downloaded the QuickTime Installer and follow its directions. It is best to download the installer, quit all running programs on your computer, and then run the installer. Don't run the installer with you browser running as well.When done, it is always a good idea to reboot your computer.

Confirming QuickTime is installed. If you have installed QuickTime properly, you should be able to see the blue words below, "Please double click on me to confirm that QuickTime is installed." If you cannot see those blue words, then QuickTime is not installed properly. To make sure your audio is working, double click on the blue words to see if you can hear the audio. If you can, then your audio appears to be properly installed.

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How to Use QuickTime

Once QuickTime is installed and configured, the rest is easy. This is the audio controller that appears with each lecture/sermon. There are 6 buttons and the buffer area in the middle (the gray and white stripe).

1. Volume. Click this button for a volume slider to appear.
2. Start/Pause. When the second button has a triangle, clicking it starts the sound. When there are two parallel lines, clicking it pauses the sound.
3. Slider. Click and hold the mouse button down on the slider button so you can move to different parts of the lecture. You can only move the slider within the gray area.
4. Buffer area. The combination of both the gray and white area shows the total length of the audio file. The gray area shows how much of the sound file has already been downloaded (or "buffered") into your computer. QuickTime starts playing automatically when enough of the file has been buffered. If you find that the slider "catches up" with the right side of the buffer area so that the sound stops, you can always click the Start/Pause button and wait while a larger amount of the file is buffered.
5. Return. Moves you to the beginning of the sound file.
6. End. Moves you to the end of the sound file.

I am still having problems

1. The QuickTime bar does not appear. QuickTime is not properly installed in your computer, or you do not have enough RAM memory to play the sound file. If none of these apply, turning off other programs or rebooting your computer can sometimes help.
2. In Windows, instead of the QuickTime bar, I get a controller bar that looks like Windows Media Player. Nothing works. In some versions of Windows, if you install the Windows Media Player after you have installed QuickTime, the Media Player tries to take over QuickTime and play its files, even though it can't. The easiest solution is to reinstall QuickTime. If you know how to set "File Associations," be sure that the ".mov" suffix uses QuickTime and not the Media Player.
3. There is no sound. Many things can cause this, and often they are very simple. Do you have a sound card? (All Macintoshes have cards.) Is the sound turned off in your computer? Are your speakers connected? Are your speakers turned on? Can you see any gray in the middle area of the QuickTime bar (i.e., is any sound getting to your computer)? Has the Start/Pause button been activated so that you see the two parallel lines and not the triangle