Apple Delays QuickTime 6 Over Proposed MPEG-4 Licenses

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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Re:hmm

[radish]

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).