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QuickTime 6 Public Beta Available

Posted by pudge on from the i-got-yer-royalty-fee-right-here dept.

krugdm writes "Apple has announced that a public beta of QuickTime 6 is now available. MPEG-4 support is there, as well as support for other technologies, such as JPEG2000, and Flash 5. The beta expires in October. An interesting in the FAQ's says that, '... because QuickTime 6 will include royalty-bearing technologies, a new QuickTime Pro key will be required to unlock pro functionality in the final release.'" It is available for Mac OS, Mac OS X, and Windows, and supports AAC audio too. I also wonder why MPEG-4 is ".mp4". ".mp3" isn't for MPEG-3, after all. Flummery!

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  1. Not quite... it's much worse than this. by pyite69 · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    > But Apple knows that Linux users, as a rule,
    > don't buy software. No third party would
    > license QuickTime for Linux, because they
    > couldn't make any money on their product. So
    > there's zero motivation for Apple to port
    > QuickTime to Linux.

    If it were simple dis-interest on Apple's part,
    we would have Linux support. However, Apple
    contractually will not allow Sorenson to
    release even a binary version of their codec
    to Linux developers.

    I am fairly certain that Microsoft is the
    reason - one part of their support of Apple,
    financially and by producine IE and Office,
    is that Apple must do whatever they can to
    not support Linux.

    If not actually true, then it is a chilling
    effect - Apple knows that they are dependent
    on MS completely, so they must not do anything
    to piss them off.

  2. Re:So... by Dephex+Twin · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yes, "gay"... good point, Sir Dumbfuck.

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