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QuickTime To Move To MPEG-4

Posted by timothy on from the quicktime-is-polymorphously-perverse dept.

spav writes: "Looks like Apple will be embracing MPEG-4 for its new versions of QuickTime according to C|Net News.com. That could mean quicktime for Linux, but would we need it?" This sounds like a start toward OS-neutral video, but until companies decide not to add proprietary layers making otherwise widely-available formats unavailable, it won't be the end. The first half of this article dwells on QuickTime's 10th birthday, but then gives slightly more detail on the MPEG4 transition.

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  1. of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I, again, have the first post!

    shoutouts to mick

    mcdougal

  2. what, no first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    does this mean there won't be a CowboyNeal option in the next poll?

  3. I like it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I, very much, like the idea of not needing Quick Time. Thanks Apple.

    Bye bye, QT.

  4. Do you want a free car? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Our car-manufacturing company has developed a new revolutionary business model for making cars.

    We give away the cars for free and then we sell services for those cars! If you want to we can clean your car, wax it or you can use some of our other services.

    We get cash from a couple of VC's, the rest of them simple don't "get it". If we need more we just call "the suits".

  5. Apple has become the leader that we must embrace by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think that this is a step forward. I think this will bring people out of shadows of MShaft into the light! shine on you crasy diamond

  6. FYI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I accidentally removed my nipples with a belt sander. It hurts.

  7. Uh, oh... Natalie Portman... by Christopher+B.+Brown · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I've been away for a while; I gather the guy for whom the answer to everything is Natalie Portman is no longer around?

    Why, when the storytelling faults are innumerable, do we want Star Wars II moreso than we'd want ParkWars? They'll probably have a more credible story :-).

    --
    If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
  8. Re:Platform neutral... eh ? by Tackhead · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    > But Sorenson 3 is a damn tough codec to beat on quality.

    Speaking of which, does anyone know how I can get the Sorenson codec for Winblows without having to play a .MOV and let WinMediaPlayer "update itself"? It should be as simple as shoving a few DLLs in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM, no?

    Gotta update a buncha '98 boxen that aren't net.connected. I have no interest in a separate Quicktime player, just want the damn codec for WinMediaPlayer.

  9. MPEG-4 is the devil's work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    MPEG-4 is obviously the work of the devil, you Satanists!