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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. So... by Clue4All · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's out for MacOS, MacOS X (BSD), and Windows. Remind me again why we can't have a native Linux version of it?

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  2. No-Wait Streaming by shmert · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One of the coolest things they demoed for Quicktime 6 was no-wait streaming, where there's no pause while the frames get buffered. You can even scrub back and forth over the timeline, streaming. Combined with an Xserve dishing out >500 simultaneous DVD-quality quicktime streams, Quicktime is looking pretty sweet. Now why don't more sites start using it?

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  3. It's simple, really. by tswinzig · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I also wonder why MPEG-4 is ".mp4". ".mp3" isn't for MPEG-3, after all.

    That's because geeks at some hoighty-toighty European institute created the MPEG-2 Layer 3 format and file extension, while Steve Jobs wrote Quicktime 6 and it's file extension, all by himself, "out of one, solid block of wood."

    Or it could be because .mp4 for MPEG-4 makes much more sense than .mp3 for MPEG-2 Layer 3, in hindsight. (How many .mp2 files do you have laying around?)

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  4. Show me one reason to use it. by Jacek+Poplawski · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not open source (DivX _is_ - libavcodec). There is no Linux version. Why should I care?