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Apple Delays QuickTime 6 Over Proposed MPEG-4 Licenses

Posted by timothy on from the loose-the-chickens-for-free-range-eggs dept.

znu writes: "Apple announced at the QuickTime Live! conference today that there's a public preview of QuickTime 6 with full MPEG-4 support ready to ship, but the terms of the proposed MPEG-4 license are holding it back. For those who haven't been following this, MPEG wants $0.25 per encoder/decoder for MPEG-4, up to $2 million per company per year. Apple is fine with that. But MPEG also wants content distributers to pony up $0.02/hour for any content that's distributed for profit. Apple feels that determining just what is "for profit" will be problematic, and that this pricing will seriously inhibit MPEG-4 adoption. You are encouraged to complain to MPEG LA about this situation."

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  1. Re:hmm by radish · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    You forget to mention that the Quicktime player blows. Or is it sucks? I forget which is worse ;-)

    Anyway I hate that p.o.s - MediaPlayer isn't great, but at least it doesn't refresh your desktop icons every 30 seconds, and has a vaguely sensible interface. I avoid .mov files like the plague just so I don't have to use that blasted player (and what's with the fscking ads?).

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  2. Re:hmm by radish · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    woohoo - now it's flamebait! What is this, the Apple appreciation forum?? Jeez...

    Can some of the moderators pleeeeeease read up on what these terms actually mean?

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  3. Re:hmm by radish · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Your opinion obv. differs from mine. For that I humbly apologise. IMHO it's one of the worst apps I have used in recent times. I am happy that you love it so much.

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  4. Re:hmm by radish · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    But that's the point, I did mean the player:

    You forget to mention that the Quicktime player blows. Or is it sucks? I forget which is worse ;-)

    See?? I am not making any comment on the worthiness of the QT format, the codecs used, whatever, just the fact that you HAVE to use their player and I HATE it. If I didn't make that clear enough I apologise...but I thought I did. BTW, what are these "quick time savvy apps" you mention? I have yet to have any success making anything other than QT player play my movs...unless you count the browser plugin (which I don't).

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