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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. Yay! by tweakt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Standards at last!

  2. QuickTime and MPEG-4 were always intertwined by Saint+Fnordius · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Huh? Is this a chicken or egg thingy?

    Up until now, I tought all of the pundits were crowing about what a victory it was for Apple, having the MPEG-4 being based off of QuickTime. Now they're talking about the new QuickTime being based off of MPEG-4.

    QuickTime already supports SWF (Flash 4) embedding as well as a slew of other formats, and IMNSHO its only real failing is in the fact that it still doesn't officialy work on UNIX/Linux (Mac OS X excepted). However, the BSD underpinnings of Mac OS X may change that...

    ...as soon as they find some Linux coders that'll sign the non-disclosure agreement.

  3. Re:Linux for Mac by robbieduncan · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What's wrong with a BSD based Mac OS. It's got a Unix like command line.