Now that Quicktime has been all-but-declared dead on Windows, and has been declared a security risk, can Serato finally move towards the usage of an open source filter?

As of last week, Quicktime for Windows has 2 active vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild, and it has been noted that, despite this, Apple will not be patching these bugs nor will they be providing any future patches for Quicktime under Windows.

It's time Serato took it's Windows users seriously for once, and allowed more options beyond using Quicktime in order to support Serato Video, or even mpeg-4 based audio files under Windows.

Here are two example options:
- FFDShow is available under GNU GPL 2.0 (en.wikipedia.org)
- LAVFilter, flatly open source and available on Github (github.com) and uses libavcodec (from the also free FFmpeg).

Both can be incorporated directly into Serato, or installed separately. Either way, please move away from Quicktime (preferably with haste).